{"id":137093,"date":"2022-03-19T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/david-chalmers-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy"},"modified":"2022-03-19T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:25:28","slug":"david-chalmers-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/david-chalmers-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy","title":{"rendered":"David Chalmers \u2014 Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82oKSkpe0ZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Virtual reality is genuine reality; that\u2019s the central thesis of <em>Reality+<\/em>. In a highly original work of \u201ctechnophilosophy,\u201d David Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there\u2019s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What\u2019s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers\u2019 mind-bending analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. David Chalmers<\/strong> is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and codirector of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of <em>The Conscious Mind<\/em>, <em>The Character of Consciousness<\/em>, and <em>Constructing the World<\/em>. He has given the John Locke Lectures and has been awarded the Jean Nicod Prize. He is known for formulating the \u201chard problem\u201d of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard\u2019s play <em>The Hard Problem<\/em>, and for the idea of the \u201cextended mind,\u201d which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality is genuine reality; that\u2019s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of \u201ctechnophilosophy,\u201d David Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}