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The Metaverse, Virtual Worlds, and the Problems of Philosophy | David Chalmers

Hidden Forces

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Are We in a Simulation or Not?

How do we know anything about the external world? Has been a problem since the very beginning. So how is it that we can even make any kind of statements? Or are we just sort of practising, engaging in a very innate practice of trying to make sense of a world that we can never truly fully concretely know)? I think it may be that we can't know everything about the external i certainly think there are some things that we can know. May i think modern science has been pretty successful in giving us some kind of knowledge of the external world. We don't get so much as knowledge of no reality in itself. On my view, i can know there's a cup here

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