Re: virus: Re:virtuality

From: Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Date: Tue Dec 24 1996 - 08:52:30 MST


> 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.



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