i would argue there is arguably a kind of second coming of an accidential crisis that perhaps our culture is or will be reckoning with. Think about like exostentialism in the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries, i see as responding in part to the collapse of a coherent intellectual argument for the existence of god. But i'd like to think that these technological developments needn't empty our lives of meaning. Rather, they'll turn into new ways to fill our lives with meaning. I'm myself more of a philosophical optimist. I think we can find meaning in many different in many different scenarios.
Philosopher David Chalmers reckons there’s a 25% chance that we are living in a simulation. And he’s OK with it.
David's new book is "Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy."
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