If you could have the perfect, ideal partner for you, but they were a construct of technology, would you still want to be with them?

Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and robotics have been getting more advanced over the years and it is likely that they will one day get to the point where digital programs are indistinguishable from reality.

If such technology could hijack our brains to perceive these virtual worlds and people the same as we perceived real-life, could you see yourself living in this matrix?

Your artificial romantic partner could be tailor made for you with the ideal appearance, values, interests, humor, and personality traits. Everything you ever wanted and needed.

Would your mind change if you were single or unfulfilled in relationships for a long period of time? Even if it meant the possibility of dying alone?

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Mandalorian

As in like a Blade Runner scenario?

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@Mandalorian Not necessarily. It could be completely virtual. The only catch is that you'd go into it knowing it was not a real person

Mandalorian

@TinyViolins No, that would be too abstract for my taste..

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@Mandalorian With advanced enough technology, it could be indistinguishable from the real world on a neurological level. Everything would look, feel, and behave like it was real.

Mandalorian

@TinyViolins Nope...VR doesn't stimulate my mind in a sexual way...I'm just not able to engage with it sexually..

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@Mandalorian What if it could? If future brain scans can show exactly what parts of the brain get activated during sex, and technology could replicate and stimulate those neural networks exactly, is that something you'd still be interested in? After all, the way we perceive the world is mostly through electrical pulses

Mandalorian

@TinyViolins I get what your saying, but it's the "concept" that doesnt work for me...because it's just not my type...

...eg: a gay guy could stimulate me better than a woman theoretically let's say, but I'm not gay, so I have zero sexual interest in it? Does that make sense now?

...Its a actually a type of new sexuality that you're talking about here...maybe you should name it?

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@Mandalorian Fair enough. Part of the whole experience is just knowing that it's real, which is why sex with a prostitute and sex with a romantic partner feel very different