Should We Plug Into the Metaverse?
Channel: Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Date: 2022-12-11

On Dec 6 Dr. @PeterWest23 spoke to the IEET/AEC Future of Work series on “Should We Plug into the Metaverse?” The metaverse is often dismissed as intrinsically worse than face-to-face interactions or the "real world." Once we begin using augmented and virtual reality will those distinctions be meaningful?

Peter West is an Asst Professor in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities, London. He works on Early Modern and Early Analytic Philosophy. 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/peterwest

He is author of "The dangers of Zuckerberg's metaverse" (iai.tv, 2021) https://iai.tv/articles/dont-fall-for-zuckerbergs-metaverse-auid-1961

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