Re: vat #12 on the nature of reality

From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 08:52:14 MDT


Doug Skrecky <oberon@vcn.bc.ca> Wrote:

>For all we know, we could be nothing but disembodied brains
>floating in a tank

That's exactly what we are, except that the tank is made of bone.

Jason Joel Thompson <jasonjthompson@home.com> Wrote:

>let us suppose that the simulation is necessarily grainy--
>discrete at the sub-atomic level due to limitations in the modelling
>software. If we do not allow that it may be a simulation we will simply
>conclude that reality is grainy.

Some would say the weird quantum world is not only grainy but buggy.

      John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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