[Craig, from "Personal introduction" thread] > Krimel, our resident chaos expert, is on hiatus. > In the meantime:
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-self-organizing-quantum-universe [Krimel} > Thoughts on TE1: > This thread was often hard to read because I had so many reservations about > the experiment. It started out as sci-fi but gravitated toward an ill > conceived understanding of the brain-in-a-vat scenario. Brain-in-a-vat is a > modern variant on Descartes' clever demons argument. It is the idea that our > experience is being manipulated by some external agency for purposes of its > own which may or not be in harmony with our own. An ill conceived understanding of the brain-in-a-vat scenario, indeed. Neither the Brain-in-a-vat nor Descartes's clever demons argument is a morality tale. Their point is epistemological. In each case it is an attempt to drive a wedge between our experience & reality. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
