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"Other uses in philosophy"

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The section on parsimony and brains it vats is essentially a summary of one preprint by Lorenzo Pieri. It is the only publication by him on the subject, and he cannot be considered an expert in this field. It is unclear why the opinions stated by Pieri in his preprint are relevant to the article. Furthermore, the current section does not give what I consider to be a full picture of the arguments in the preprint. I have tried removing the section, in disconcordance with @Randy Kryn: (see [1]). I have therefore now edited that section [2] to remove original research. Feedback is welcome here on the talk page. --Maximilian Janisch (talk) 15:00, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think most of your removals are for the better (there is a lot of crap in this article). I do think that the brain in a vat should be mentioned somewhere, though, since it seems like an obviously analogous thought experiment (about which the arguments for and against would seem to be quite similar as well). jp×g 21:36, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
To editor JPxG: I agree with you and I have added a sentence added two sentences. (I would've liked to add a bit more but I find it personally quite difficult to write on this type of subject without starting to generate Geschwurbel.) --Maximilian Janisch (talk) 23:07, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

dream hypothesis

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there could be a distinction between dreams and reality. when we dream, we do not remember reality. when we are awake, however, we remember the dream. 49.37.195.208 (talk) 16:21, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This can't be right—but what is?

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No error correction is perfect, and at some point of complexity, error correction algorithms cause more mistakes because they have problem to manage needlessly huge chunks of data.

I'd fix that, if I knew what it was supposed to mean. Anyone? – AndyFielding (talk) 20:02, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It makes sense to me Coltcatus (talk) 20:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If our reality is a simulation, then the entire reality & us as humans do not exist.

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Let’s imagine that reality as we know it is a simulation. Then, we questioned our reality and existence. Like for example: “Is all of this we know, all just fake?” But, one question that is not talked about: If we did escape the simulation, then are we still human or is human doesn’t exist and that means we are a complete different species altogether? Maybe in a scenario that we did indeed escape the simulation but found ourselves that humans don’t exist, and that we are just sentient objects, not humans. X0JovianPedia0x (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]