Re: The Matrix as Metaphysics, David J. Chalmers

Immortalist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2003-11-21 wrote: 

>The Matrix as Metaphysics, David J. Chalmers 

Chalmers only seems to be examining and sorting the nature of these
ideas out, perhaps covertly more for the sake of posterity. If
intelligence survives long enough, there will be complex virtual
realities created in the future vastly surpassing anything exhibited
now. With sophisticated methods of computational solipsism providing
convincing "illusions" for their "denizens" or external observers
browsing about.

So the question would eventually have to be explored: how valid should
we (or whatever form of intelligence exists in that era) consider the
perceptions or contents of engineered virtual realities to be? Whether
it be because of legal or ethical matters, metaphysical concerns, or
whatever befits the time...

******Janet