or as the famous philosopher Vatnam said, to really refer to a thing you need an unbroken causal connection, and that is much easier to establish when the tree in front of you is represented by an actual object in memory as opposed to being patternmatched from a bunch of atoms
-
-
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
but a brain in a vat would never need to shave. thus the razor is only simulated and thus inapplicable in this case. QED
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Occam's Teleogical Plea: our local truth maximum must be a global maximum, otherwise the universe would be both stupid and cruel
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.