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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is the Virtual World as Real as the Physical World?

Why do you think it was important to make an argument that the virtual world is every bit as real or every bit as meaningful? Oh, i guess for a lot of reasons. I mean, just in terms of fairly traditional philosophical questions, this helps us to think about the relationship between the mind and reality. And the e in the next few decades, virtual reality technology is here. If primitive people are becoming obsessed by the idea of a metar verse - then i think it sersis really important to think philosophically about that. What kind of a life can you actually have in a meta verse? Can you live a meaningful life there?

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