{"id":145833,"date":"2022-09-07T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy"},"modified":"2022-09-07T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:24:15","slug":"david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy","title":{"rendered":"David Chalmers on 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\/hePEg_h90KI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU, joins us to discuss his newest book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed in this episode include:<\/p>\n<p>-Virtual reality as genuine reality.<br \/> \u2013Why VR is compatible with the good life.<br \/> \u2013Why we can never know whether we\u2019re in a simulation.<br \/> \u2013Consciousness in virtual realities.<br \/> \u2013The ethics of simulated beings.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the page for the podcast here: <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2022\/01\/26\/david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy\/\">https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2022\/01\/26\/david-chalmers-on-realit\u2026hilosophy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the audio version of this episode here: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the\/id1170991978?i=1000549092329\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/david-chalmers-on-real\u20260549092329<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out David\u2019s book and website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/\">http:\/\/consc.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/david-chalmers-on-reality-virtual-worlds-and-the-problems-of-philosophy\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU, joins us to discuss his newest book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. Topics discussed in this episode include: \u2013Virtual reality as genuine reality. \u2013Why VR is compatible with the good life. \u2013Why we can never know whether we\u2019re in a simulation. \u2013Consciousness [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145833","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=145833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}