
Cyborg or Virtual Utopia w/ John Danaher
FUTURES Podcast
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Is Sherlock Holmes Real?
You make it very clear that youare not talking about virtual reality as we know it currently, the head sets and the oculus rift. You are talking about this notion of the virtual which is whereby we're comfortable with certain things which are not physically real and yet still actual. So for example, fictional characters, you use the example of sherlock holmes in the book yesmes. The cherlock holmes example is that how does he exist? Well, he clearly doesn't exist as a real physical person, but he does exist as areal fictional character.
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