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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

We can do very, very different things in virtual and physical worlds. It's important to know what kind of world we're interacting with at a given time. Andi think furthermore, right now there are so many signs that you're in in a virtual world. Things are a bit cartoonish and so on. So it's not very hard to make that distinction. One thing is interesting is going to be, once we have more and more sophisticated viar hat becomes indistinguishable from ordinary physical reality,. i suspect we still get to want some way of marking when something is virtual.

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