Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”
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The Human Mind Interacts With the Outside World
A virtual reality generator can in principle, obtain all the information it needs about what the user is doing by inte cepting the nerve signals coming from the user's brain. Those signals could instead be transmitted to a computer and coded to determine exactly how the user's body would have moved. The signals sent back to the brain by the computer can be the same as those that would have been sent by the body if it were in the specified environment. Thus the user would lie motionless, connected to the computer, but having the experience of interacting fully with the simulated world,. In effect, living there. This is, as david goes on to say, a basically talked about in a d
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