Is There a Time When People Will Spend a Lot of Their Time in Virtual Reality?

How do you know the world is real? How do I know I’m real? As virtual worlds expand, our concepts of reality warp. NYU philosopher David Chalmers – author of Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy – talks to Ros Taylor about the etiquette of virtual living, why video game characters deserve moral rights, and how we can know what we think we know. 

• “Simulated beings could end up outnumbering non-simulated beings. So the odds that YOU are simulated could be high…”
• “If we’re living in a simulation, all this is still real – and our lives are still full of meaning.”

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Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic, and Alex Rees. Assistant producer: Elina Ganatra. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Audio production and original music by Jade Bailey. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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