title: Virtual reality and the problem of illusion
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metadata.value: Dokuchayev, Ilya I.
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metadata.value: Golokhvast, Kirill S.
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metadata.value: Sokolov, Aleksey M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:14:25Z
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metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:14:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Dokuchaev I. I., Golokhvast K. S., Sokolov A. M. Virtual reality and the problem of illusion. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 18–29. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.102
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41376
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metadata.value: The paper touches upon the problem of differentiating between virtual reality and original
  reality. The article makes a contribution to the modern ontology, as it discusses the problem
  of the status of virtual reality, which is formed by modern technical and mathematical means
  using cognitive technologies. The work is based on the concepts of E. Husserl and H. Putnam,
  as well as theories of psychophysiology and cognitive sciences. Arguments are provided for
  the following opposing statements: that it is possible to differentiate between them and that
  it is not. To specify the distinctive features of virtual reality, the latter is described as a system
  of perceived existing things and in comparison to other forms of such systems: subjective and
  objective, individual and social, natural and cultural, material and ideal, original and fictional,
  abstract and transcendental, evident and illusionary, true and false, erroneous and imitative,
  deceitful and mistaken, performative and simulating, conditional and unconditional ones.
  This part of the article qualifies virtual reality as illusion created via imitation. It is further
  revealed that the key distinctive feature of original reality, which is defined in the modern
  phenomenology as the maximal level of evidence, is applicable to virtual reality as well. The
  major argument in favor of the provable difference between virtual and original reality, which
  the contemporary analytic philosophy offers, can be confuted by means of a thought experiment
  based on the doubling of virtual reality. The final part of the article discusses psychological
  (experiment-based cognitive) arguments in favor of differentiating between virtual and
  original reality successfully: effect of presence and immersion. Both effects are typical of the
  reality types under comparison, as well as of experiencing these realities. The paper concludes
  that neither philosophy nor cognitive sciences can offer a compelling argument to differentiate
  between original reality and virtual reality.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: original reality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: virtual reality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: simulated reality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: illusionary reality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: problem of the Matrix
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metadata.value: problem of evidence
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: effect of presence
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metadata.value: immersion
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metadata.value: Virtual reality and the problem of illusion
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