The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[GhylTarvoke]

You can't be sure, because everything you see, hear or feel are electrical signals that are sent to the brain. You can imagine a candle, even when there was never light in your head. It's absolutely dark there - and you are able to imagine light. So you can see something even when it's not there. How do you know that this world is real? An animal or a blind person has a very different opinion about the world. How can you say that yours is reality? Life could be a simulation, a dream or a test. We are probably NPCs in a video game and god is the developer.

This is technically the correct answer, but not what Frictional was looking for. Solipsism is a discussion-killer.

If we assume that people exist in the way we think they do, then their musings on consciousness are at least suggestive. If they're not conscious, then what are they talking about?

When the screen/camera shakes does it mean immediate creature approach ?
Because there was strong chromatic aberation effect when you saw an creature. Is this related?
Does this mean loosing sanity as in Amnesia or something else ?

The distortion only seems to happen when a creature is near. This includes camera shaking, digital artifacts, and chromatic aberration. One of the developers called it the sci-fi version of sanity effects.

But it doesn't necessarily mean you're in danger; the creature may be friendly. Also, sanity may not work the way it did in TDD, with Daniel falling to the ground and so on.