(January 30, 2015 at 10:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Pretty sure I didn't have to warp anything to explain that people living in a machine experienced the physical states of that machine.
Okay, well let's not call it "warping". Let's go with its formal name - the strawman.
Quote: If I'm being asked to imagine that this is a matter of fact statement about our reality that's a matter of fact statement about their experience. Some other thing, not "The Matrix" and I'd answer differently....
Idealism doesn't postulate anything responsible for "the Matrix"/hologram/simulation/consciousness as far as I know. It's on par with physical monism in that respect.
Quote:Should I have imagined some other thing..and then responded to that pother thing..as though I was responding to Bennys question....there's a term for that.
....for example, if Benny had asked me, what if "we were living, in a non material world" -Then I would be a non material girl.
(but that begs the question, huh?)
Ha! That made me chuckle. I'm glad I wasn't the only one having that thought this entire thread.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
