Re: The Matrix as Metaphysics, David J. Chalmers

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> "Uncle Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Immortalist wrote:
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> > > 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.
> >
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> 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?"
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> 1 or more.
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> > "What is a philosopher?"
> >
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> a lover of lightbulbs.
>
I have a theory about light bulbs: The wall switch is connected by a wire to
a little bell inside the glass bulb. When someone flips the switch, the bell
jingles and a little man inside the bulb proceeds to either begin to
furiously rub two sticks together and make light from the resultant fire,
or, stop rubbing the sticks together thereby causing the fire to die out and
stop producing light. What the little man does depends on the previous state
he was in, and how much firewood he still has (when the wood runs out the
man dies and the bulb needs to be replaced).

What so you say to my hypothesis? That the little man is a philosopher??

Greysky
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