Re: virus: Re: alternative model

Martin Traynor (m.traynor@ic.ac.uk)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:43:19 +0000

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On 27 Nov 96 at 21:30, Ken Pantheists wrote:

> Kenneth Boyd asked:
>
> Question: is Virtual Reality formally distinguishable from Subjective
> Reality?
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> -You knowingly participate in virtual reality.

Prove that you do not also participate in it unknowingly. A virtual
reality that was created around you with subatomic resolution and
rich and consistent would be subjectively indistinguishable from
reality.

> -Subjective reality is a repository of your experience-- even virtual
> experience.

Agreed, but can you prove that it is composed of anything *other*
than virtual reality?

> - The two are necessarily different because one can be used to construct
> the other.

But can that difference be shown formally? I don't think it can.

Cogito ergo sum, anything else is debateable.

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