Why Is Virtual Reality Interesting for Philosophers?
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018 DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2018.00101 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Augmented reality Consciousness Emptiness Life-world Mixed reality Philosophy of religion Social hallucinations Virtual reality |
| Key points | Proposes that philosophy and VR research can productively intersect around topics such as conscious experience, virtual ego-dissolution, and the reality/virtuality continuum, among others. |
Abstract
This article explores promising points of contact between philosophy and the expanding field of virtual reality research. Aiming at an interdisciplinary audience, it proposes a series of new research targets by presenting a range of concrete examples characterized by high theoretical relevance and heuristic fecundity. Among these examples are conscious experience itself, "Bayesian" and social VR, amnestic re-embodiment, merging human-controlled avatars and virtual agents, virtual ego-dissolution, controlling the reality/virtuality continuum, the confluence of VR and artificial intelligence (AI) as well as of VR and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), VR-based social hallucinations and the emergence of a virtual Lebenswelt, religious faith and practical phenomenology. Hopefully, these examples can serve as first proposals for intensified future interaction and mark out some potential new directions for research.
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