Carnegie Council Podcasts

How Real is Virtual Reality? with David Chalmers

Aug 18, 2022

01:31:18

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Is There a Need for New Language?

04:25

Stacastic Parots, Are They Really Using Statistical Models?

04:19

Is There a Difference Between Pain and Sematic Suffering?

04:53

Introduction

3min

Virtual Reality Is Genuine Reality

4min

Is Everything Weare Experienced Now, Isn't All a Dream?

4min

Is This a Text Book on Philosophy?

5min

Are We in Assimulation?

3min

Are the Simulations a Way Out of the Illusion?

3min

Is Virtual Experience Realistic?

3min

Is Virtual Reality an Illusion?

4min

What Do You Think About Augmented Reality?

6min

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Is There a Need for New Language?

4min

11.

Is Virtual Reality a Philosophy of Technology?

4min

12.

Consciousness Studies

6min

13.

Is GPT Three Conscious?

5min

14.

Is a I System Conscious?

3min

15.

Stacastic Parots, Are They Really Using Statistical Models?

4min

16.

The New Models of Consciousness

2min

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Ethics and Reality Plus

6min

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Is There a Future for Virtual Worlds?

4min

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I Don't Think Virtual Reality Has to Be Bred in Circuses

5min

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Are Artificial Systems Suffering?

4min

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Is There a Difference Between Pain and Sematic Suffering?

5min

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What Is Your Vision for the Future?

4min

Might the world we live in be a simulation? Are the virtual environments being created real or illusions? What are the prospects for creating artificial consciousness? New York University's David Chalmers and Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow Wendell Wallach discuss Reality+, Chalmers' latest book, which probes the vast array of philosophical and ethical challenges posed by virtual reality and enhanced reality.