RE: Philosophical zombies
March 7, 2018 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2018 at 9:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Virtual worlds are interesting. They're one of those rorschach for the times issues. One of my favorite one liners on the subject is that reality appears to be pixelated. This leads some to wonder about the nature of reality.
Personally, I always wonder why anyone would find it remarkable that virtual worlds created in a pixelated "reality" would be..themselves..pixelated. Is there a difference between an actual and a simulated reality, and is this one of them? It would have to be..we would have to imagine that a "real reality" woulk not be pixelated to think that this suggests that our reality is or may be a simulation. Otherwise, it simply suggests that the nature of simulations in a given reality are influenced or circumscribed by the nature of the reality they exist in. Less obnoxiously, it may be that it's difficult to determine the fundamental difference between a reality and a simulation because there isn't one, at least...not in this reality.
Silent premises ftw!
Personally, I always wonder why anyone would find it remarkable that virtual worlds created in a pixelated "reality" would be..themselves..pixelated. Is there a difference between an actual and a simulated reality, and is this one of them? It would have to be..we would have to imagine that a "real reality" woulk not be pixelated to think that this suggests that our reality is or may be a simulation. Otherwise, it simply suggests that the nature of simulations in a given reality are influenced or circumscribed by the nature of the reality they exist in. Less obnoxiously, it may be that it's difficult to determine the fundamental difference between a reality and a simulation because there isn't one, at least...not in this reality.
Silent premises ftw!
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