Virtual Reality as a new methodological basis for scientific knowledge

UDC 165+004
DOI 10.20339/AM.05-26.030

 

Yusup N. Abdulkadyrov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Technology, Dagestan State Technical University, Makhachkala, e-mail: filosofdgtu@mail.ru

Mehin I. Zeynalova, Postgraduate Student, Dagestan State Technical University, Makhachkala, e-mail: filosofdgtu@mail.ru

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the profound integration of virtual reality as a specific cognitive phenomenon into the structure of the modern scientific worldview. Fundamentally new aspects of the phenomenon of virtuality have been identified, on the basis of which the entire methodological toolkit of modern science is currently undergoing significant expansion and transformation, opening up entirely new prospects for the development of interdisciplinary research and the entire scientific epistemology of the 21st century. The scientific novelty of this study lies in its examination of virtual reality as a special form of knowledge systematization, allowing for the unification of diverse empirical facts and significant theoretical results of modern science into a unified picture.

Keywords: reality, virtual reality, scientific picture of the world, virtual worlds, social reality

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