> Would everyone on atheism accept that the world we experience is a
> virtual world?In the sense that even from an atheist perspective it
> would be an experience of what was represented in neural state, which
> in real space would be measurable in inches. Yet the experience you
> get is of a possibly limitless virtual space. The objects within this
> virtual space, would be virtual interpretations of what was
> represented in the neural state in real space. So every object would
> be a representation of a section of the neural state that you have an
> experience of.
>
> The seperation of the virtual objects from any concept of a physical
> object, is shown by the 'brain in vat' thought experiment, where if
> you were to think of your brain being placed in a vat, and given all
> the same input signals that it is receiving at the moment, then it
> would experience the same physical world, yet there would be no
> physical counterparts underlying those you experience in virtual
> space.
> ...