David Chalmers: Are We Living in a Simulation?
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The Problem of Cartesian Scepticism
Scepticism about our own memory is a major aim of the book. The idea that simulations are real gives us some purchase on the sceptical problem. Simulators may need only to simulate a few thoughts of experience within a minimal world muddle. In this extreme version of temporary simulation, sometimes I'm just waking up from a nap in a dark room. Sometimes i am fully awake and attending to the world as ive got here. Was that case when you woke up with amnesia down a hole? You know what, if we can't even trust our memory, it seems like how can we get it going?
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