Joscha Bach rejects the argument that simulated water cannot make you wet and believes the philosophical opposition to the contrary view is driven by social rather than intellectual reasons.

“So I don't understand the argument that simulated water makes you wet. I don't understand why there is such a strong camp of simulated w- uh, water doesn't c- uh, make you wet in philosophy, and I think it has social reasons, not intellectual reasons that this is the case.”