Re: The Matrix as Metaphysics, David J. Chalmers

"Uncle Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Immortalist wrote:
> >
> > The Matrix as Metaphysics, David J. Chalmers
> [snip 2025 lines of utter bullshit]
>
> If this is the way philosophy treats ideas, then philosophy doesn't
> deserve to have any.  One is reminded of the wired ducks' heads scene
> in writer Terry Black's "Dead Heat."  I know Terry.  The producers
> mightily pissed him off in an interminable "concept" meeting, so he
> wrote a scene so unremediably awful that even those pinheads would be
> aghast and disgusted and cut the crap.
>

How close to the Matrix can we get when discussing metaphysics before we
violate your rule of comparisons?

> They loved it.  They gave it extra air time.  So goes philosophy.
>
> "How many philosophers does it take to change a lightbulb?"

1 or more.

> "What is a philosopher?"
>

a lover of lightbulbs.

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> Uncle Al
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>  (Do something naughty to physics)