On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:38:05PM -0600, Joseph Knight wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2/27/2012 2:15 PM, Joseph Knight wrote: > > > > With COMP it's all "inside your head" so I don't see the problem. > > > > > > That IS the problem. Since they are both "inside your head" why is > > dreaming so different from being awake. > > > > I don't see how the answer would be any different from how one would > naively respond: That's just the way things *are *when your brain is in > those atypical states. > >
I agree with Brent that there is a problem here. What distinguishes what's "inside the head" from what's "outside" is that in the outside case, reality must be consistent with your existence as part of that reality, aka the Anthropic Principle. Dreams do not seem to have this requirement - except perhaps in the case of lucid dreams. Idealistic theories, such as COMP do have trouble with the AP. I discuss this in my book, but it remains an open problem IMHO. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
