[meteorite-list] OT: Reality, Perception, Finiteness of Universe

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:08:48 -0500
Message-ID: <11s7959i2ocrm1cv4tgo6952hkmnpfr6if_at_4ax.com>

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:54:45 -0700, you wrote:

>For instance, I would imagine you saw The Matrix. Suppose everything
>you see, hear, smell, taste, feel and think is simply illusion.
>Your first response might be, "That's ridiculous! I can read the
>words you've typed, I can feel the keys of my keyboard, I can hear
>the whirr of the disk drive, smell dinner cooking, etc." But if
>you're really honest with yourself, you'll come to the perhaps
>unsettling realization that you can't prove ANY of it is real.

A paper from a few years back:

http://www.simulation-argument.com/

I must say, I do encounter people who don't pass the Turing test.
Received on Tue 25 Aug 2009 10:08:48 AM PDT