Re: virus: Re:virtuality

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Sun, 12 Jan 1997 23:58:37 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Alex Williams wrote:

> > Is there any way we can tell if the world we live in is not an artificial world impregnated into our brain thinking in our real body somewhere far away?
> >
> > How do we know if everything we are living through is artificial?
>
> >From the memetic PoV: Does it matter? If reality is virtual it still
> engenders the same memes and meme-complexi into your brain as if you
> were experiencing it.
>
> The only real question that is of use is what do you do if it /is/
> virtual and its state changes, but that enters the realm of the purely
> speculative. The question of whether all reality is virtual is simply
> unprovable, one way or another.

Oh, but the metaphor changes the questions one asks....

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