Heard philosopher of mind David Chalmers (an Australian at NYU) just now on the virtual and the real at Stanford - https://events.stanford.edu/events/698/69825/.
David Chalmers, Symbolic Systems Program 2017 Distinguished Speaker: "The Virtual and the Real: Philosophical Issues About Virtual Reality"
Amazing that his talk was so closely parallel with my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography "Naked Harbin Ethnography" ...
It's western philosophy (not entirely harmonious memes, but fascinating - and David and I will stay in touch as WUaS and I hope to create a realistic virtual Harbin/earth/universe for STEM research :) relating directly to a main theme of my Harbin book :) ... Stanford is amazing.
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David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness
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David Chalmers -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers
Hard problem of consciousness -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
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Consciousness -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consciousness
Philosophy -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy
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