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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
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Date: 8 Feb 92 02:25:03 GMT
References: <1992Feb1.212751.5911@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Feb2.082603.6355@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Feb3.145332.21683@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
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In article <1992Feb3.145332.21683@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson) writes:
>If the world is determistic then no part of it can know it.
>For it cannot distinquish what is true from from has been
>determined.  Thus a deterministic world is unknowable.

To analyze this, I think one would need more information about exactly
what you mean by "to know". You seem to view truth and determinedness
as some kind of opposites? Suppose you have a part of the world, a
subsystem, where they coincide, that is, a part that deterministically
distinguishes between true and false? Isn't it actually "true" and "false"
that are the opposites, that need to be distinguished among, rather than
"true" and "determined"?

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