Stimulateos, if you're out there, please upload all of us so we get some life after this. You can put us on a slow computeror it's all right. Eill still get to experience thetheol healn, the old galapi in the carter. It's a bit like being john malkovitch. We can go inside and inhabit his experience. Maybe we'd also need not just amazing virtual reality technology, but amazing like empathy technology,. So we can take someone else's brain or some simulation, and get our own brain, our own experience, to transform so that it mirrors someone else's experience.
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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