Choosing virtual reality | David Chalmers
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is the Meta Verse Different From the Matrix?
When neil stevenson introduced it in his novel snow crush in 19 92, the meta verse was a single, massive, social, virtual world that many people would visit and hang out with. Now we're now thinking more practically about coming virtral reality technology, such as the kind that you experience through headsets. The medavers is somewhat different from the matrixs, or they have a lot in common. But i still think many of the issues are continuous between the two. We can raise exactly the same question, is the menaverse, a world of illusions? And many people will say that it is.
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