The main slogan in this book reality plus is virtual reality is genuine reality. I want to say that, you know, when you're in a virtual world, you're interacting with real objects. People have built deep and serious relationships in virtual worlds. Ultimately, the virtual could end un being continuous with the physical world in the kind of meaning it has to us.
Philosopher David Chalmers reckons there’s a 25% chance that we are living in a simulation. And he’s OK with it.
David's new book is "Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy."
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