The Social Furniture of Virtual Worlds.
David Chalmers argues that virtual objects exist in the form of data structures that have causal powers. I argue that there is a large class of virtual objects that are social objects and that do not depend upon data structures for their existence. I also argue that data structures are themselves fu...
| Publicado en: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 11; no. 55; pp. 345 - 370 |
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Paradigm Publishing Services
Dec2019
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| Sumario: | David Chalmers argues that virtual objects exist in the form of data structures that have causal powers. I argue that there is a large class of virtual objects that are social objects and that do not depend upon data structures for their existence. I also argue that data structures are themselves fundamentally social objects. Thus, virtual objects are fundamentally social objects. |
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