--I I [1 These are ethical, epistemological, ontological, narratological and logical questions, and they would normally be answered in those fields: but the emerging discourse of cyberspace and virtuality has few remaining points of contact with the disciplines it has left behind-not because it deals with diflErent concepts or experiences, but because its writers prefer to mimic with their prose and their lexica the newness of their technology. 2 That, in the end, may be the most intriguing philosophic question of all, and I will come back to it. All I want to imply to begin with is that every conceivable problem--every statement that can be conceived as a problem--is already philosophic, regardless of whether it is treated that way in a text. So on the face of it there is not much sense in my t i t l e - - w h y claim that no philosophic problems are raised by virtual reality, when all problems must be philosophic? There is an increasingly large literature on virtual reality (already, I think, it is beyond the grasp of two or three people reading continuously), and an increasing fraction of that literature takes it for granted that
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There are no philosophic problems raised by virtual reality
Elkins, James
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, Volume 28 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1994
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