Choosing virtual reality | David Chalmers
Philosophy For Our Times
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How Do You Know You're Not in Assimulation?
The simula hypothesis says we are in a lifelong computer simulation. This is great for philo opher because it's highly reminiscent of a famous challenge issued by renee descantes back in the 16 forties. Descants asked how do you know anything about external reality? How do you know that your senses aren't fooling you? Or, most famously, how do youknow an evil demon isn't deceiving you by producing sensations as of an external world, when on of this is real? These days we ask that question by raising questions like,How do you know you're not in assimulation? So these days wepose descarte's question by asking, how doYou
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