David Chalmers Thinks We May Be Living in a Simulation (and He’s OK With It)
The Next Big Idea
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Is Virtual Worlds Real?
When you say that virtual worlds are real and authentic, to what extent is that just a semantic argument or an expansion of the definition of what real means? I think everything that we do of the physical world, we can do in principle with a digital world. So I guess I'd want to say the two are continuous. Maybe there's one asymmetry, which is that the physical world was there first, and virtual worlds get constructed within the physical world.
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