Dear Bruno,
Your claim reminds me of the scene in the movie Matrix: Reloaded where Neo deactivates some Sentinels all the while believing that he is Unplugged. This leads to speculations about "matrix in a matrix", etc.
http://www.thematrix101.com/reloaded/meaning.php#mwam
There is still one question that needs to be answered: what is it that gives rise to the differentiation necessary for one "description" to "bruise" (or cause any kind of change) in another "description" if we disallow for some thing that acts as an "interface" between the two.
What forms the "interface" in your theory?
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0001/0001064.pdf
Stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jonathan Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: What do you lose if you simply accept...
Le 17-mai-05, à 09:56, Jonathan Colvin a écrit :
Is it any
stranger that a blind man can not see, than that a description of a billiard
ball's properties (weight, diameter, colour etc) can not bruise me?
It is different with comp. because a description of you + a description of billiard ball, done at some right level, can bruise you.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
