
How Real is Virtual Reality? with David Chalmers
Carnegie Council Podcasts
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Is Virtual Reality a Philosophy of Technology?
i think you view this as a contribution to the field known as philosophy of technology. And is there anything about that that you would like to elucidate for our listeners yes. I want to use technology to help us to think hard about some very traditional philosophical issues about knowledge, reality, consciousness, value. But ye, quite a lot of the book is thinking hard about coming. Virtua reality technology,. Augmentad reality technology and artificial intelligence all come into their own in different ways when they're used by people who are not familiar with them. So i'm still a philosopher, and this is still at an abstract level of discussion, but i'm at that point really trying to think hard
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