From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 21:34:13 MST
--- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> At 12:39 PM 3/5/03 -0800, Hal wrote:
>
> > re-runs are particularly prone to
> >philosophical slippery-slope arguments where we blur the lines
> between an
> >"actual" re-run and what amounts to a picture of one. I won't recap
> the arguments here, they have been discussed ad infinitum in the
> archives.
>
> Ah, but are the archived arguments an "actual" re-run or what amounts
> to a picture of one?
By definition, an archive is a picture of an argument, not an actual
argument in action. Of course, this post is an archive of my argument,
and not the actual argument itself (good thing you can't hear me
ranting at the CRT!). I suppose any email exchange is merely an
exchange/distribution of archived arguments.... If so, did we ever
really have a discussion, or do we just remember that we did?
If you can't rant at your opponent in person, does a debate ever really
take place, or is it merely a plenum of possible quantum world paths?
In a MWI metaverse, do all possible participants each argue every
possible argument to every possible point of contention, or does it
merely seem so from the amount of list traffic (ah, there is where the
signal to noise ratio comes from!)...?
=====
Mike Lorrey
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"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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