{"id":15838,"date":"2022-01-18T04:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=15838"},"modified":"2022-01-18T04:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:32:52","slug":"good-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=15838","title":{"rendered":"Good lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/17\/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality-so-embrace-it-says-us-philosopher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Sample, Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_15839\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"t is hard to imagine humans spending their lives in virtual reality when the experience amounts to waving your arms about in the middle of the lounge with a device the size of a house brick strapped to your face.  But this is where humanity is heading, says the philosopher David Chalmers, who argues for embracing the fate. Advances in technology will deliver virtual worlds that rival and then surpass the physical realm. And with limitless, convincing experiences on tap, the material world may lose its allure, he says.  Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, makes the case to embrace VR in his new book, Reality+. Renowned for articulating \u201cthe hard problem\u201d of consciousness \u2013 which inspired Tom Stoppard\u2019s play of the same name \u2013 Chalmers sees technology reaching the point where virtual and physical are sensorily the same and people live good lives in VR.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15839\" class=\"wp-image-15839 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018There\u2019s no good reason to think that life in VR will be meaningless or valueless,\u2019 says Chalmers.<\/br><span style=\"color: #a9a9a9;\">Photograph: Aleksandr Zamuruiev\/Alamy<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is hard to imagine humans spending their lives in virtual reality when the experience amounts to waving your arms about in the middle of the lounge with a device the size of a house brick strapped to your face.<\/p>\n<p>But this is where humanity is heading, says the philosopher David Chalmers, who argues for embracing the fate. Advances in technology will deliver virtual worlds that rival and then surpass the physical realm. And with limitless, convincing experiences on tap, the material world may lose its allure, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, makes the case to embrace VR in his new book, Reality+. Renowned for articulating \u201cthe hard problem\u201d of consciousness \u2013 which inspired Tom Stoppard\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2015\/jan\/28\/the-hard-problem-review-tom-stoppard\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">play of the same name<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Chalmers sees technology reaching the point where virtual and physical are sensorily the same and people live good lives in VR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Sample, Guardian: It is hard to imagine humans spending their lives in virtual reality when the experience amounts to waving your arms about in the middle of the lounge with a device the size of a house brick strapped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=15838\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}