What if the answer is yes and this is still real?
Simulated is often heard as fake. David Chalmers’ Reality+ refuses that collapse. A virtual world can still contain real objects, real people, and lives that matter. That is a claim about what counts as real, not a proof that we are simulated.
Same world
Hands, tables, other people, pain, love
The furniture of a life. Still there, even on the simulation hypothesis.
still real
Different ontology
Implemented, not therefore illusory
What the world is made of could change. That it is a world need not.
Even if we are already in a virtual world, it can still be genuine reality.
David ChalmersCloser To Truth Chats24 March 2022
Source notes
We might already be in a virtual world. Even if we are, virtual worlds can still be genuine reality: real objects, real events, meaningful lives.
The central thesis of Reality+. Simulated is not a synonym for fake.
Not a proof that we are simulated.
Official Closer To Truth interview.
David J. Chalmers, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (New York: W. W. Norton, 2022).