Re: ODP: Free will/consciousness/ineffability

From: rwas <mc68332.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:38:00 -0700 (PDT)

--- Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Brent Meeker wrote:
>
>
> >On 10-Oct-01, Marchal wrote:
> >> You talk like if you have a proof of the existence of matter. Like
> if
> >> it was
> >> obvious subtancia are consistent. But you know substancia only
> appears
> >> in Aristote mind when he misunderstood Plato doctrine on
> intelligible
.
.
.
> You mean "as is everything is material. "?
> Be careful. I certainly does not believe everything is computational.
> Quite the contrary, IF I am the result of a computation then I can
> expect
> to be confronted with many non computational things.
> Perhaps you were meaning "everything is immaterial"? That's is
> indeed a consequence of the computational hypothesis.

I am confused with this. Not to be "combative" but how can one know
they are not in a simulator, ie., arcade game or virtual reality?


Robert W.

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