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virtual reality is genuine reality. I'm Rufus Griskem and this is the next big idea.

Today are we living in a simulation? The last of her David Chalmers says there's a decent

chance that we are but he's okay with it.

Let's begin with a clip from a classic American movie The Matrix. The film if you're one of the

17 people on earth who hasn't seen it revolves around a character named Neo played by Keanu Reeves.

He lives an ordinary life until he meets Morpheus played by Lawrence Fishburn who lifts him in

on a secret. Right now we're inside a computer program. Is it really so hard to believe?

Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.

Is this real? What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can

feel, what you can smell, you can taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted

by your brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century.

It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call the Matrix.

No. I don't believe it. It's impossible. I didn't say it would be easy Neo.

I just said it would be the truth. Stop. Let me out. Let me out. I've always sympathized with

Neo in that scene. I think most people do. If someone told you that your life is a lie,

that the world you live in as a simulation, that what you perceive is not reality, well you'd be

pretty upset too. But when philosopher David Chalmers first saw the film, he had a totally different

reaction. A brain in a vat, he wrote in response to the movie, is not massively diluted.

At least if it has always been in a vat, Neo does not have massively false beliefs about the

external world. And here's the kicker. Dave says, even if I am in a Matrix, my world is perfectly real.

In the 20 plus years since the Matrix came out, Dave has continued to stew over the questions

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