Dana Andreicut wonders whether, or not, to escape into the Matrix.
Suddenly everything goes dark and the subtle background sound of a cooling fan grinds to a halt.
You open your eyes and look around.
You find you’re in a white room, and that you’re wearing a pair of curious-looking glasses. In front of you is a screen. Your ears are covered by a pair of heavy bluetooth headphones. You remove them and as you slowly take in your surroundings, you notice a middle-aged man in a white lab coat coming towards you. He says, “Thanks for taking part in our VR experiment!”
When you step out of the room you take out your phone. You glance at the screen and note in shock the latest news headlines: ‘Trump presidency lives up to expectations as work begins on wall with Mexico’; then ‘ISIS claims 40 victims in attack on Istanbul nightclub.’ You put your phone back into your pocket and wonder whether you can’t purchase a holiday in the VR machine.
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Heraclitus (c.500 BC)
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Does the Cosmos Have a Purpose?
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Is Driving Fossil-Fuelled Cars Immoral?
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Frankl & Sartre in Search of Meaning
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Luce Irigaray
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Significance
Ruben David Azevedo tells us why, in a limitless universe, we’re not insignificant.
The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness
Rob Glacier says don’t just live in the now.
Philosophers Exploring The Good Life
Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.