[ExI] Dr Mardy quote of the week: his own

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Dr Mardy quote of the week: his own

On 19/01/2021 15:12, Spike wrote:
> Ben, how can you really be absolutely sure... that I exist?  I might 
> be just a kind of imaginary construct.

>... whatever created it possesses all the necessary qualities and knowledge
to be Spike, so it might as well be Spike ...
-- 
Ben Zaiboc

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Oh OK Ben thanks for that.  It increases my confidence I exist.  This
explanation is more satisfying that that feller who commented "I think,
therefore I am."

Where I was originally going with it however is that you might be the only
one.  It would kind of a software version of The Truman Show, where you are
Truman and we are avatars.  If you are a Truman Show fan, you may recall
that scene at the beach where a guy popped out of the trash can and started
yelling "TRUMAN!  It's all faaake!  It's a TV show!" before several burley
guys grabbed him and hauled him away.  That would hafta be unsettling.

I would be the software equivalent of the trash can guy.

spike