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Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.

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Virtual Reality - A Comparison Between Living Processes and Virtual Reality

The accuracy of a virtual reality rendering depends not only on the responses the machine actually makes to what the user actually does, but also on responses it does not. This similarity between living processes and virtual reality is no coincidence, as I shall explain shortly. We occupy virtual reality because we're minds have only access to physical reality out there beyond your mind via channels of information. Your mind is incomplete darkness. It's in your skull operating on your brain. There's no light there. What's being received is information via optic nerves, via auditory nerves, via the nerves of sensations of other senses, and it's being interpreted. Let's just remember the significance of this idea of virtual reality. People

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