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Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: About Life, Philosophy, and Everything

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9781472143594
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Language: English
Page Count: 364
Publication Date: 1/1/2019
Size: 7.87" l x 5.01" w x 1.15"
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WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?

If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?

These sound like questions from a philosophy class, but in fact they're from modern, popular video games. Philosophical discussion often uses thought experiments to consider ideas that we can't test in real life, and media like books, films, and games can make these thought experiments far more accessible to a non-academic audience. Thanks to their interactive nature, video games can be especially effective ways to explore these ideas.

Drawing on interviews with both game creators and professional philosophers, this book explores ten key philosophical questions - such as, "What can we actually know?" and "What does it mean to be a good or dutiful person?" - through discussion of relevant video games, from BioShock to Ultima.

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