The Virtual and the Real
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چکیده
Is virtual reality truly real? The most common view is that virtual reality is a sort of fictional or illusory reality, and that what goes in in virtual reality is not truly real. I will defend the opposite view: virtual reality is a sort of genuine reality, and what goes on in virtual reality is truly real. The issue manifests itself in a number of questions. Are virtual objects, such as the avatars and tools found in a typical virtual world, real or fictional? Do virtual events, such as a trek through a virtual world, really take place? When we perceive virtual worlds by having immersive experiences of a world surrounding us, are our experiences illusory? And are experiences in a virtual world as valuable as experiences in a nonvirtual world? Here we can distinguish two broad packages of views. A package that we can call virtual realism (loosely inspired by Michael Heim’s 1998 book of the same name) holds:1
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