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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-294
Authors: | Metzinger, Thomas |
Title: | Why is virtual reality interesting for philosophers? |
Online publication date: | 22-Oct-2018 |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |
Language: | english |
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. |
DDC: | 100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-294 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Frontiers in robotics and AI 5 |
Pages or article number: | Art. 101 |
Publisher: | s.n. |
Publisher place: | Lausanne |
Issue date: | 2018 |
ISSN: | 2296-9144 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00101 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.3389/frobt.2018.00101 |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |