James_Miller comments on We are not living in a simulation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 12 April 2011 04:03:10AM -1 points [-]

reasoning about a physical phenomenon is not the same as causing a physical phenomenon. You cannot create new territory by sketching a map of it, no matter how much detail you include in your map..

But reasoning about reasoning does cause reasoning.

Comment author: dfranke 12 April 2011 04:07:41AM 1 point [-]

It's the first "reasoning", not the second, that's causing the third. Reasoning about puppies causes reasoning, not puppies.

Comment author: James_Miller 12 April 2011 04:19:38AM 0 points [-]

Is it possible for a simulator, that doesn't physically incorporate a human brain, to reason just as we do?

Comment author: dfranke 12 April 2011 10:33:14AM 1 point [-]

Yes.

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