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Review of David Chalmers, Reality+: virtual Worlds and the problems of Philosophy, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022

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Notes

  1. For other work on VR and phenomenology, see Metzinger (2018), Slater et al., (2008), Slater et al., (2010), and Kilteni et al., (2013).

  2. For reference, The Sims has had tens of millions of players since it’s conception: https://levvvel.com/the-sims-statistics-and-facts/.

  3. See the market map of the Metaverse: https://medium.com/building-the-metaverse/market-map-of-the-metaverse-8ae0cde89696.

  4. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWdfpwCghIw.

  5. https://medium.com/kabuni/fiction-vs-non-fiction-98aa0098f3b0.

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Lassiter, C., Kagan, A. Review of David Chalmers, Reality+: virtual Worlds and the problems of Philosophy, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022. Phenom Cogn Sci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09864-0

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