(January 30, 2015 at 9:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: There are no people or cars, sure..but there -are- bits...and that is still a physical thing, understand? Information, bits, data...these are words for a description of a physical state of a physical thing. That's why I keep asking for confirmation that you understand this. "The Matrix" is feeding them analogous "bits" of data, and it just so happens to be a more robust physical system than they are...which is, amusingly, precisely where we find ourselves (even if there is no Matrix, ala the movie).
You're not allowed to warp Benny's metaphor to your liking. You're literally explaining what it would be like in the *movie* The Matrix, whereas Benny is asking you to take the idea of this Matrix and apply it as a possible as-a-matter-of-fact reality of our universe, except that Neo doesn't exist and we aren't secretly being ruled by machines.
I know you're better than this Rhythm
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle