(August 10, 2009 at 2:28 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: If I virtualise it ... I have to simulate the hardware and I have to support that simulation. Therefore we now have effectively 4 layers of complexity ... the OS, the simulated machine, the hosting OS and the physical hardware the hosting OS is running on. Some of those layers can be more simple but the whole, of necessity, must be MORE complex than the primary simulation because it NOT ONLY HAS TO RUN THE SIMULATION IT HAS TO RUN ITSELF!!!!!!Well, that is completely different from what I said.
Because you are positing an ontological reality outside of your mind, by this analogy of actual things which are responsible for the experience and consciousness of your mind.
Whereas, what I said in the post you quoted was merely that speculating even to that length entails positing an ontological reality which is independent of your mind, in trying to explain your sense experience. And that is more complex than not doing so. Not doing so simply stops all speculation and makes no positive affirmation that anything exists which explains your experience, beyond your own mind.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton
