Date:
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Location:
18th Floor Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
David Chalmers (NYU/ANU), "Perception and Illusion in Virtual Reality"
Do virtual reality devices produce the illusion of an external reality? Or do they produce non-illusory experiences of a virtual reality? I argue that at least in some cases, these devices produce non-illusory experiences. I first argue for a realist ontology of virtual objects, and then argue that we can sometimes perceive these objects correctly, in part by analogy with a corresponding question about experiences associated with mirrors.