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Article 3619 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
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Date: 10 Feb 92 19:27:20 GMT
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In article <6554@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
>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".

I agree.

I suspect the point is that if you (say) are determined, you can't
distinguish between things that are true and things that you were
deterministically caused to think were true.

This would not mean the things you thought were true had to be false,
of course.  Hence the significance of "know".

-- jd


