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38 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 September 2012 12:25PM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 27 September 2012 09:16:15AM *  1 point [-]

"Lean toward: non-Humeanism", because given that we are in a simulation, it should be possible to recover "laws" that are isomorphic to constants in the source code via reverse engineering (natural science). Whether Humeanism holds outside of our own "world" seems like a separate question.