“Virtual reality will eventually become indistinguishable from actual reality”
Agree
- Technology advances exponentially every year
- Our brains can already be fooled
- No fundamental limit to simulation quality
- Eventually sensory inputs will be perfect
- Moore's law suggests it's inevitable
Disagree
- Consciousness has a special quality
- Physical reality has infinite complexity
- We'll always detect subtle differences
- The hard problem of qualia remains
- Cost will keep it imperfect
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