Virtual Reality: A philosophical investigation Introduction The questions regarding the reality of our world has been a topic of important debate through out the centuries. Plato argued in his theory of forms, and allegory of the caves, that the world, and things within the world are not real, but shadows of the form of what is real. Descartes, in his philosophy, considered the possibility of an evil demon, who created the illusion of an external …showed first 75 words of 4462 total…

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