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>From: ryan@eas.gatech.edu (Ryan Mulderig)
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Subject: Re: Grounding: Virtual vs. Real
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Date: 20 May 92 19:51:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca's message of 20 May 92 17:31:13 GMT

This may seem a rather odd point, but in claiming that real world
transduction is required to have a grounded system, have you
considered that you may in fact not have tranducers but could in fact
be receieving all the information you have though a very detailed
virtual reality system. This is the issue as the metaphysical question
as to whether we exist as we belive we do, or are in fact just brains
in a vat being fed reality though a set of electrical impulses?

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 For the world is more full of weeping than you can understand" - WB Yeats
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Ryan Mulderig - College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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