Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!feenix.metronet.com!rtxserv
From: rtxserv@metronet.com (Bill Wallace)
Subject: When is a simulation of an X an X?
Message-ID: <D2yqLF.AM6@metronet.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:24:50 GMT
Organization: Texas Metronet, Internet for the Individual  214-705-2901 (info)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Lines: 9

I have sampled the the thread called "When is a simulation of a Y a Y?"
with a great deal of interest. I responded to it but it seems to have
been lost or ignored.

My answer to the question is: when the observer has NO independent
method of determining which is which. Virtual reality of the distant
future?

Bill Wallace
