Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dave Doe writes:

Pretend, being the operative word.

Pretending is extremely important to using simulators successfully.
If you cannot pretend--if you cannot suspend disbelief--you cannot
really profit from the simulator. Conversely, if you can do these
things, using a simulator can be extremely useful experience.

Only kids have plausable dualistic minds. Perhaps that's you. The
rest of us have grown up.

It's a function of intelligence more than age. The ability to adopt a
different viewpoint and voluntarily and selectively disregard aspects
of reality or fantasy at will is very closely correlated with
intelligence, as it requires considerable cognitive capacity. Animals
have less intelligence and virtually no imaginations, for example, and
thus could never make much use of simulators.

Enhanced, being the operative word there.

Yes.

It's not reality, and you *cannot* escape that.

Well, yes, you can. That's the whole idea. I've already explained
the principle above.

To do so - and you
should be put in a mental asylum - no longer being able to
distinguish between reality and fantasy is considered by good
psychologists to dangerous.

The inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy has nothing
to do with the ability to adopt either frame of reference.

Things like literary fiction and cinema depend on this ability, and it
is widely held and uncorrelated with mental illness. It is, in fact,
a function of intelligence, not insanity, as I've explained.

It most certainly is not!

Because you say so? ATC is extremely easy to simulate realistically
compared to other aspects of flying.

You fly a sim and yet are unable to "put yourself in the seat" -
that's counter to your argument in the first place. (It's a sim, and
you're telling me you can't simulate it - pathetic really).

I can put myself wherever I see fit in simulation, sometimes with
varying success (depending on the desired viewpoint and the type of
simulation). There are some aspects that I find more attractive and
enjoyable than others. An advantage of simulation is that I have a
choice.

It is obvious, Anthony, that you are the product of simulated sex and
only imagines you have a life. And, given how badly you've done in your
imagined life, your imagination is severley deficient.