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Are we living in a simulation?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Old Questions We Never Solved

What is real? What kind of thing counts as real? And furthermore, when it comes to some of these weird scenarios, like a virtual reality, for example, doest that actually have the properties to count as real or is it fake or illusory? i think some of these questions are, you know, old questions in new guises that come up in thinking about modern technology. Even descartes scenarios may have had an element of reality to them. But im ad wel try to stay on the track, as it were.

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