`Reading it will change the way you think about the universe` Sean Carroll In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J.
Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of `technophilosophy`, Chalmers argues categorically, no: virtual reality is genuine reality.
Virtual worlds are not second-class worlds. We ...