Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

by David Chalmers

A book of ‘technophilosophy’ by David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU and co-director of its Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. Chalmers is famous for coining the phrase ‘the hard problem’ to describe the difficulty of explaining how matter gives rise to an experiencing mind, but this book is very much for the general reader and requires no prior knowledge of philosophy of mind (with lots of references to The Matrix, the opening lines of “Bohemian Rhapsody” etc.).