Chalmers' main claim in this book is that virtual realities are real, and that they are just as real as life right now, and there is no way of knowing that the life we are living right now is not a simulation. When I ask myself “Can you lead a good life in a virtual world?” I automatically think no. To me, in a virtual world, there is no real good you can do. If you help other people in the virtual world, you are only helping what I would think to be pixels. Anything you do in the virtual reality exists only in the simulation, but if you were to step out of it, anything you did is lost. It reminds me of having a high score in a game, but if you deleted the game, the high score goes away and it's like you never achieved the high score.

This quote makes me think about violent video games. In today's world, these video games are normalized and are not considered actually harmful, because you are not actually killing anyone. However, Chalmers continues to talk about how he thinks things that happen in virtual reality are real. Is Chalmers saying that if someone was to kill someone else in a virtual reality simulation, they actually committed murder? However, this goes back to how murder is defined. Would murder be defined the same as in reality, as in a virtual reality, or would it have a different definition?