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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 21 March 2010 04:12:39AM 1 point [-]

How would a bit-by-bit description of an object with that property differ from a bit-by-bit description of an object without it?

It would have some extra bits saying "this object exists".

Comment author: ata 21 March 2010 05:04:45AM 5 points [-]

Sounds like the Ontological Argument. God exists because he's defined to have the existence bit set to 1.

Whether an object exists in some reality is a property of that reality, not of the object.