Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

From: Mohsen Ravanbakhsh <ravanbakhsh.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:18:01 +0330

*Not necessarily. If you draw a diagonal on a square on a computer screen,
it will be made up of a discrete number of pixels despite what Pythagoras'
theorem calculates. Irrational in the real world may just be an illusion.*
I was trying to mark a distance in real world which is irrational according
to a rational unit(Width of pixels), and for such diagonal the distance is
an irrational number, although it might be made up of rational numbers of
another irrational unit (diagonal pixels)
I mean there's some irrational distance out there!

-- 
Mohsen Ravanbakhsh.
On 3/13/07, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>  On 3/13/07, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh <ravanbakhsh.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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>  *Why?  "Mathematical" means nothing but not self-contradictory.  Sherlock
> > Holmes stories are mathematical.  That doesn't mean Sherlock Holmes exists
> > in some Platonic realm.
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> > Brent,
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> > What do you mean by that? I do not get your point.
> > Anyway I do not insist that it should be realizable. But I have examples
> > in which we need them!
> > Consider the use of Pythagoras theorem in nature. There are many cases
> > in which the distance between two points should be irrational.
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> Not necessarily. If you draw a diagonal on a square on a computer screen,
> it will be made up of a discrete number of pixels despite what Pythagoras'
> theorem calculates. Irrational in the real world may just be an illusion.
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
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