On Thursday 29 May 2003 5:18 pm, Lothar Schenk wrote:
> John Sarkela wrote:
> > Our only understanding of and access to reality is a simulation. Period.
>
> A simulation of what? Reality? But since _all_ you have access to (as per
> your premise) is the simulation, how would you be able to know that there
> is something beyond this simulation, something different from it, on which
> it is based?

Or, to put it slightly differently, how would the simulation give itself to be 
known as a simulation? If you don't have access to anything that isn't 
simulation, then to what in particular can the word "simulation" refer? As J. 
L. Austin once said, it can't *all* be horses.

Dominic