Brent, For God's sakes, the "characters in a video game'" don't know anything. They are completely fictional characters. You seem to have lost all touch with reality in your zeal to find something to criticize. I can't believe we are actually having this discussion... Do you also believe ghosts, trolls and fairies "know things"?
Edgar On Monday, January 13, 2014 9:21:46 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/13/2014 6:10 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Brent, > > > > What makes some computations real is that they are computing real and > actual processes > > of reality. They are actually running in reality computing the actual > state of reality > > instead of running in some teen ager's fantasy or video game. That > should be obvious... > > > > Example the computations that determine the conservation of particle > properties in > > particle interactions are real because they are actually computing real > processes. But > > the computations that are running in a video game or sci fi film are > obviously not > > computing any reality at all. > > > > Are we now unable to distinguish fiction from reality? > > We can distinguish the video game from our reality because it is embedded > in our reality. > But the characters in the video game can't know that. And we can't know > whether we're > embeded in some bigger reality. Physicist speculate some of the physical > constants that > go into the standard model were just determined by random symmetry > breaking and might had > different values in distant parts of the universe or in other universes. > Do you have some > argument that this can't be so and that THIS is the only possible world? > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
