Our Reality Question about virtual reality was: Is virtual reality real or an illusion? If you answer by saying Virtual reality is an illusion, you’ll probably accept the second premise. Here’s why. Given this answer, you’ll also accept Simulations are illusions, since simulations are a kind of virtual reality in the broad sense. In fact, you’ll probably accept If you’re in a simulation, everything you experience in the external world is illusory. So if you can’t rule out the simulation hypothesis, you can’t rule out that everything in the external world is illusory. It seems to follow that
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