RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 21, 2017 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2017 at 5:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 20, 2017 at 10:07 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You could argue that both the forms we perceive in "real" life and in a computer game hold more than semantic similarity: we know that they are representative, and that the things in question do not really exist as we represent them.You could. I'd argue that what we -do- know leaves little room to disaagree,
Quote:It doesn't really matter if our representations come via computer bits or QM particles, because knowledge of either of those building blocks is separate from what we think we know about the things being presented. The only difference, really, is that one vehicle of presentation has a mechanism which is known and controlled by us (humans), and one seems to originate as a product of some other entity, quantity or framework.Well, at least there's that one difference by which we differentiate.
Quote:The dragon exists-- as a collection of ideas encoded in the states of magnetic bits. "Mom" exists-- as a collection of ideas encoded in the states of quantum particles.
OFC the dragon exists. Momma and the dragon are still different, unique.
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