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Is This Reality? VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness - Part 2
Intelligence Squared
The Role of Agency in Virtual Worlds
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In a virtual world, it's not just we can do one thing. We can actually do many things and that's very important to things being real. Things can be simulated in multiple ways in a book. It's mostly as if the character is moving down one path. So I'm not sure they have the genuine causal powers that people do in a simulated virtual world. On the other hand, maybe how about an interactive novel? But this is when people get to go down different pathways. There's the notion of agency. You don't talk very much about that in the book. What's the role of agency for these characters? And how important is that?
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