Virtual Worlds Are Not Illusions or Fictions

A review of "Reality+"

David Chalmers is one of the best academic philosophers alive. Whatever one thinks of his views, he’s a clear and systematic thinker.

Yet his Reality+ is, taken as a whole, a book of dubious quality. It’s a paradigm example of why academics should not try to write “trade books”. Unfortunately, Reality+ reads like a book that follows lame advice for how t…