vat brains often philosophize over whether they're actually brains in bodies but usually dismiss it as absurd, why should for example someone go the trouble of engineering the human body and all the world around it as opposed to vats, it just totally fails occam's razor
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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
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i think that all god did was run a gazillion cellular automatons and keep the prettiest ones
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or rather, the anthropic principle ensures that you'll always find yourself within the output of a sufficiently interesting ruleset.
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(the weak one. the strong one is nonsense.)
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hmm you might enjoy unsonghttp://unsongbook.com/
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