Re: Janus [was Evidence for the simulation argument ]

2007-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
Mark, I appreciate your post, and I take any feeling, that what is said here is incompatible with the computationalist hypothesis, as a misunderstanding of what comp could be, or as an absence of knowledge of how computer science and mathematical logic force us to revise our opinion on

Re: Janus [was Evidence for the simulation argument ]

2007-03-21 Thread Mark Peaty
John, with your rich linguistic experience you surely recognise that English [plain or otherwise] is very much a hybrid language - and surely many who are forced to learn it as a second or third language would call it 'b*stard' even. And the way that we native speakers of English use words from