[ExI] [Wittrs] Re: The System Level Issue

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 6 July 2010 09:37, Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Short of believing in some silly religion in which we all live as avatars in some glorified computer game, we must assume that the world exists before we make computations about it. It does not follow from the fact that we can compute process X that process X = a computation.

Even if we don't in fact live as avatars in a computer game, the point
is that we could be. We wouldn't know. Moreover, if both are
equivalent in content we would have no good reason to prefer being in
reality to being in the simulation.


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Stathis Papaioannou