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How Real is Virtual Reality? with David Chalmers

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Is There a Need for New Language?

i think i distinguish at least three basic meanings for reality. It's like everything that exists, tas like a space hat is like just being real. When it comes to voch the virtual realities that we create, i say they'll be real in four of those five senses. But i do want to say, in a certain sense, they could be regarded as not genuine. I'm wondering whether the argument that virtual reality is genuine reality is just going to contribute to confusions down the road. Yes? Iv, got a big fan of new language. Nodays we come up with new concepts and new labels for them,. Make new distinctions that carve things up in useful ways.

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