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Is Virtual Reality… Real? with David Chalmers

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Extreme Case, the Perfect Simulation Hypothesis

Philosophers like to deal with extreme cases. Let's go to the extreme case of a votral reality, where it's indistinguishable from ours. Analyze that and then draw conclusions about coming technology. If those are on a power with the virtual worlds of simulations, that gives us some reason to think that even these realistic virtual worlds might be real. Those might be meaningful too.

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