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Mxsmanic wrote in
: 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. |
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