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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There Such a Thing as a Self?

How do we know our sense of self really isn't an illusion born of confusion about our own subjective experience and our own relationship to the world? In recent years, people have begun to see if they can stretch decarts scepticism to the internal world as well. Chalmer's view that virtual realities are real is a bit canner intuitive. But in his view, how exactly do we distinguish between subjective experience and what's really out there? That's what i'll ask him after a quick break.

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