On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 1:36:49 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2020 2:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> Being sure of that sentence is true, "Dr Watson was a friend of > >> Sherlock Holmes." doesn't mean the things named in the sentence exist. > > > > It certainly means that Watson and Homes exist, in some sense. The > > question is “is that sense interesting with respect to our goal of > > explaining "everything” (matter and consciousness) in a coherent way? > > They exist in exactly the same way arithmetic and Turing machines exist. > > Brent >
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