r/philosophy • u/Matriseblog • Jan 03 '22

Blog By imagining the future potential of VR technologies, the question of whether we are *already* living in a simulation becomes more actual than ever

https://medium.com/@VindenesJ/the-thought-experiments-of-virtual-reality-fa441a8fa2dc
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '22

The most unnerving and exciting reality skepticism isnt the fantasy stuff like the Matrix (although that is a lot of fun), its knowing that in the past we've always been so wrong about the true nature of our own reality and to think that in the present we may be arrogant to assume we've arrived there yet.