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Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”

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Is There a Fair Roulette Wheel?

The quantum laws of physics are the things that mean that, from our vantage point, we just don't know what number is going to come up next. We can't predict where it's going to go next because of the quantum world. A virtual reality generator tha renders a given environment perfectly for humans will not do so for dolphins or extra terrestrials. To render a given environment for a user with given types of sense organs, a virtual reality generator must be physically adapted to such sense organs and its computer must be programmed with their characteristics.

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