Can You Live a Meaningful Life Im a Virtual World?

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Can we live a meaningful life im a virtual world? Some people think this is just doomed to be fantasy, escapism, fiction and therefore it could never really be fully meaningful. You've got a sense of physicality when you experience things as being out there in the physical world. But when we use vr, for a sophisticated user, you're experiencing all this as a bunch of as a virtual space with virtual objects. There are real virtual objects sitting o their digital processes, sitting on a computer, to be sure. And that's not an illusion.

We spend more time in digital, virtual spaces than ever. But are those places really real? If they are, does that mean we could be living in virtual reality right now? Or does it even make sense to ask such a question? Philosopher David Chalmers joins Adam to talk about consciousness, the nature of reality, and the limits of digital technology. Pick up David's latest book, Reality+, at http://factuallypod.com/books. Support Adam at http://patreon.com/adamconover Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.