My personal definition of existence is "all complexes of matter/energy (or
their direct analogues) that could potentially exist in a causal chain with
me."
Darin Sunley
rsunley@escape.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: J. R. Molloy <jr@shasta.com>
To: extropians@extropy.org <extropians@extropy.org>
Date: Friday, November 24, 2000 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: 137: Sheer blank-minded stupidity
>Eugene Leitl writes,
>
>> Now if you please could explain what "actually exists" means...
>
>Okay, take out the word "actually" (it isn't actually necessary), and our
>troll-o-meter should settle back down, right?
>Reality means all that exists. "Exists" means you (or someone you
>designate) can verify its presence via experiment.
>
>Stay hungry,
>
>--J. R.
>3M TA3
>
>"It's not your vote that counts,
>it's who counts your vote."
>--Al Gore
>(Or was it Joseph Stalin... Hitler? Oh well, one of those socialists.)
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