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Inkubus · 04-24-2023, 06:47 PM

What?

pythagorean · (This post was last modified: 11-07-2023, 04:04 AM by pythagorean.)

I don't know how to answer this question.

Both answers have the word "I" in them.

I mean, if we are going to get all cosmic and stuff, then I question my own existence, because my atheist skepticism is going to kick in.

Maybe some physicist can give me a TOE (Theory Of Everything), and maybe I can find myself in that theory. (Let's call a model of that theory "reality".)

Maybe I can prove that I'm preserved under the automorphisms of reality. (Which, incidentally, would make a great name for a band, even better than than the name of my best friend's band, Hilbert Space.)

That would mean that I'm preserved under the automorphisms of reality (that is, I'm just a union of orbits).

Then I would certainly agree that I'm pseudo-definable, which is enough to convince myself of my own existence. (I don't have to be first order definable in reality. There's no need to play Ehrenfeucht games. I'm easy.)

But even if I can prove all that, it's quite possible that I'm just another Turing automatic, with freedom to do as you program it.

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