New Scientist - USA (2022-01-08)

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Virtual reality technology is advancing fast. Many predict that a virtual-reality


“metaverse” will be the next stage of the internet, and that we may eventually


have complete simulated universes as in The Matrix films.


Some even contend we live in such a world already. In this talk, philosopher


David Chalmers looks at these claims, and draws on science, technology and


science fiction as well as philosophy to argue that worlds generated by


computers need not be fake or fictional realities. They will no doubt bring


many wonderful and terrible things, but they will offer the full range of the


human condition – and the lives we live in them can be just


as meaningful as in the real realities.


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