Open AccessHow the True World Finally Became Virtual Reality
Author(s) -
Anna Longo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
filozofski vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1581-1239
pISSN - 0353-4510
DOI - 10.3986/fv.42.2.13
Subject(s) - virtual reality , sort , epistemology , philosophy , order (exchange) , artificial reality , virtual world , metaverse , aesthetics , mixed reality , computer science , computer mediated reality , human–computer interaction , economics , finance , information retrieval
As David J. Chalmers claims, “virtual reality is a sort of genuine reality, virtual objects are real objects, and what goes on in virtual reality is truly real.” In this paper, I will suggest that the philosophical hypothesis that we might live in a simulation can be considered to be the last and most nihilistic episode in the series of narrations about the true and apparent worlds that Nietzsche sketched in The Twilight of the Idols. I will argue that Nietzsche’s prediction about the obliteration of the apparent world has actually been fulfilled by Chalmers, and I will show why his theory must be considered one of the many fables that humans have been producing in order to organise the world according to their own ends.