On 14 January 2014 01:44, Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> wrote:
> Terren,
>
> There is no "infinity of simulations". We are talking about actual reality
> rather than sci fi fantasy here, or at least we should be.
>
So you don't think there is any such thing as arithmetical realism. OK.
>
> Every biological organism has one and only one internal mental simulation
> of its external reality environment. This whole system, external world
> simulated by the minds of multiple biological observers, actually consists
> only of computational information flows in the presence and logical space
> of reality. Everything, including ourselves, is analogous to running,
> interacting software programs.
>
> The apparent physicality of reality in the minds of biological organisms
> is an evolutionary adaptation to make reality seem more meaningful and
> easier to function within. This physicality is not real, it's an internal
> mental illusion. I devote the entire Part IV of my book dissecting this
> illusion and explaining how it works.
>
All is maya, indeed.
>
> The book also explains in detail how once we identify and subtract
> everything mind adds to reality we arrive at what reality actually is, pure
> information computationally evolving in the logical space of reality I call
> ontological energy. When we peel back all the various layers of physicality
> that mind adds to external reality its remaining purely abstract
> information structure is clearly revealed.
>
Which sounds something like arithmetical realism, or some other version of
Platonism. It is important to lay out your theory formally which would
include your position on AR.
>
> We all live in a world that is actually almost entirely a construct of our
> mental simulations of an external information reality. Thus when we look
> out into the world we are mostly looking into the structures of our own
> minds. We live inside our minds under what I call the 'retinal sky'.
>
Nice phrase. Something like Śūnyatā. I believe Kant called it the
phenomenal world.
>
> Just as robots function within environments they simulate internally with
> computations, so do all biological organisms including ourselves. We do no
> 'see' the real actual world, we compute internal models of it and live
> within those.
>
> It is only these internal biological simulations that there is any
> evidence for. There is no evidence of any 'matrix' type simulations. That's
> just adolescent sci fi unless there is some actual evidence. Again I went
> through that sci fi phase back in the 1960's in a short story i wrote on
> the same theme titled "The Livies". Let's stick to evidence based reality
> rather than sci fi...
>
> Actually I'd call "the Matrix" SF rather that sci-fi, as I hope would most
science fiction purists. Sci-fi ("skiffy") is reserved for space opera.
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