I mean, I agree willful suspension of disbelief is a thing, but as someone who actually build APIs and worries about network latency and packing messages to be efficient blocks of data and that the method itself is a useful affordance for the product, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Just because people don't actively think all the time in terms of low level contexts doesn't mean that only simulating the high level contexts is a sufficient substitute for the whole process.
I think this whole concept is conflating "illusion" (i.e. allowing oneself to be fooled) and "delusion" (being involuntarily fooled, or unwilling to admit to being fooled.)
I personally don't enjoy magic shows, but people do, and it's not because they think there's real magic there.
>Just because people don't actively think all the time in terms of low level contexts doesn't mean that only simulating the high level contexts is a sufficient substitute for the whole process.
See also Aristole's description of a 'soul' (Lat. anima/Gk. ψυχή), which is embodied above all, unlike the abstract description of the soul that the West would go on to inherit from Neo-Platonism via Christianity.
Even though today we know full well we are indissolubly embodied entities, the tendency to frame identity around an abstraction of that persists, but it seems thinking around this hasn't completely succumb to this historical artifact, see 'Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human'
Just because people don't actively think all the time in terms of low level contexts doesn't mean that only simulating the high level contexts is a sufficient substitute for the whole process.
I think this whole concept is conflating "illusion" (i.e. allowing oneself to be fooled) and "delusion" (being involuntarily fooled, or unwilling to admit to being fooled.)
I personally don't enjoy magic shows, but people do, and it's not because they think there's real magic there.