1. Explain
the difference between a Sim World and a Virtual Reality (5-6 sentences)
2.
Using Schwitzgebel’s terminology, Define a
“world” in a way that both a physical world and a simulated world both count as
genuine worlds (5-6 sentences)
3. What
is the intuitive picture of reality? (5-6 sentences)
4. Take
one of the two claims Bostrom thinks must be true if the claim that we are
almost certainly living in a Sim world is false, and explain why we might think
it is true. You can appeal to lecture (or slides) for this question (5-6 sentences)
5. Compare and contrast
Descartes’s “Evil Demon” and Putnam’s “Brain in a Vat” scenario (you may,
though you are not required, to use the movie “The Matrix” as your basis for
the “Brain in a Vat” scenario). (7-8 sentences)
6. The Doctor Who Episodes “Almost Human” and
“The Rebel Flesh” brought up several of the questions we discussed related to
persons. Choose two of the six personhood questions, and for each one, explain
how it arose in the episodes (7-8 sentences)
7. Name
and explain the three component hypotheses of Chalmers’s Matrix hypothesis. (7-8 sentences)
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