On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:54:45 -0700, you wrote: >For instance, I would imagine you saw The Matrix. Suppose everything >you see, hear, smell, taste, feel and think is simply illusion. >Your first response might be, "That's ridiculous! I can read the >words you've typed, I can feel the keys of my keyboard, I can hear >the whirr of the disk drive, smell dinner cooking, etc." But if >you're really honest with yourself, you'll come to the perhaps >unsettling realization that you can't prove ANY of it is real.
A paper from a few years back: http://www.simulation-argument.com/ I must say, I do encounter people who don't pass the Turing test. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
