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Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives
but I prefer the term nondigital to real because digital and virtual objects are real, in that they exist in physical space, and engaging with them is a material experience.
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
You do not have to surrender your commitment to facts to participate in an alternate reality. You just have to engage with one, in any way. If you are a user of digital systems, if you allow them to provide you recommendations, if you train them on your preferences, if you respond in any way to the likes, downvotes, re-shares, and comment features ... See more
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
I wonder for how many of us the experience of the world is already so attenuated or impoverished that we might be tempted to believe that a virtual simulation could prove richer and more enticing? And how many of us already live as if this were in fact the case? How much of my time do I already devote to digitally mediated images and experiences? H... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
Chalmers explains that “a common way of thinking about virtual realities is that they’re somehow fake realities, that what you perceive in VR isn’t real. I think that’s wrong.” “The virtual worlds we’re interacting with,” he adds, “can be as real as our ordinary physical world. Virtual reality is genuine reality.”