# Reality+

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- Book: [Reality+](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-j-chalmers/reality) ([Reality+.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-j-chalmers/reality.md))
- Authors: [David J. Chalmers](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-j-chalmers)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 17 h 12 min
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-019-5
- Published: 2022-01-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 17 h 12 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just escapism? In a highly original work of 'technophilosophy', Chalmers argues categorically, no: virtual reality is genuine reality. Virtual worlds are not second-class worlds. We can live a meaningful life in virtual reality - and increasingly, we will. What is reality, anyway? How can we lead a good life? Is there a god? How do we know there's an external world - and how do we know we're not living in a computer simulation? In Reality+ , Chalmers conducts a grand tour of philosophy, using cutting-edge technology to provide invigorating new answers to age-old questions. Drawing on examples from pop culture, literature and film that help bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. © David J. Chalmers 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022