Let's say we figured out how to simulate a human brain on a computer. We have build a highly realistic virtual world, where simulated people live
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Can you say what reality is, or better, what existence is? Find out: if you can’t then your question has no meaning. Can’t you see an irremovable paradox?
This is about the same:
“"If a tree falls down in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
If you’ve said “tree” and “forest” it means that you ARE there, and there is a “noise”, otherwise this phrase has no meaning as well. The same paradox.
What is this about? It’s not easy to talk about things you are talking. If possible at all.
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More practical question is: "Can it affect the quality of our lives?".
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2. It can affect the quality of life of other people (virtual ones).
Does it make it a real rain?
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... or happy.
As with any life.
> Does it make it a real rain?
It depends on definition of word "real".
Anyway, you are asking a wrong question.
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And what makes a “definition”?
“Anyway, you are asking a wrong question.”
How there can be “wrong” or “right” questions? It’s like there is “wrong” or “right” reality.
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Can you say what reality is, or better, what existence is? Find out: if you can’t then your question has no meaning. Can’t you see an irremovable paradox?
This is about the same:
“"If a tree falls down in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
If you’ve said “tree” and “forest” it means that you ARE there, and there is a “noise”, otherwise this phrase has no meaning as well. The same paradox.
What is this about? It’s not easy to talk about things you are talking. If possible at all.
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