----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Joel Thompson" <jasonjthompson@home.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: E.S.P. in the Turing Test
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>
> > There is only one reality.
>
> I think this sort of belief might be the dogma to which Al refers.
>
This is not a belief. It is a definition.
Reality means the fact, state, or quality of being real or genuine. 2. That
which is real; an actual thing, situation, or event. 3. The sum or totality of
real things. 4. That which exists, as contrasted with what is fictitious or
merely conceived of.
To make reality plural is simply to play with words. What shall we call the sum
of all "realities"? If you like, you can call it existence. There is only one
reality because reality means everything (and every non-thing) that actually
exists.
--J. R.
"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
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