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> the philosopher who first conceived the idea of virtual reality What does that even mean?

• harry8 4y ago
  Descartes "evil demon" from 1641 says Wikipedia is the philosophical idea in all it's forms short of "but with a computer" Anyone got anything earlier? Wouldn't surprise me. https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/ https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/
  • blazespin 4y ago
    pretty sure first person that had a dream figured out VR.
    • Yahivin 4y ago
      Or peyote.
    • harry8 4y ago
      yeah maybe kinda? Lack of control of the dream there that makes a difference for mine. YMMV. Dunno when lucid dreaming was discovered. Was there something written down about it by one of the ancient greeks or similar vintage?
  • earthboundkid 4y ago
    Descartes explicitly wrote about automatons and telling them apart from people using language and reasoning as sign posts (“the Turing test” three hundred years before Turing).