Counting unanswered ones is a great idea, thanks. Same friend said I should use “equivalent” for Drowning Child, and I agree about Blind Men.
Deceiving Demon is actually the train of thought that led Descartes to, “I think, therefore I am.” (It’s my favorite.)
”But there is I know not what sort of Deceivour very powerful and very crafty, who always strives to deceive Me; without Doubt therefore I am, if he can decieve me; And let him Deceive me as much as he can, yet he can never make me not to Be, whilst I think that I am. Wherefore I may lay this down as a Principle, that whenever this sentence I am, I exist, is spoken or thought of by Me, ’tis necessarily True.”
Strictly, it only proves that something exists. I could be just a thought of the demon. Though, granted again, a simulation also exists in some meaningful sense. Which gas raised the moral concern for mental constructions and simulations.
Counting unanswered ones is a great idea, thanks. Same friend said I should use “equivalent” for Drowning Child, and I agree about Blind Men.
Deceiving Demon is actually the train of thought that led Descartes to, “I think, therefore I am.” (It’s my favorite.)
”But there is I know not what sort of Deceivour very powerful and very crafty, who always strives to deceive Me; without Doubt therefore I am, if he can decieve me; And let him Deceive me as much as he can, yet he can never make me not to Be, whilst I think that I am. Wherefore I may lay this down as a Principle, that whenever this sentence I am, I exist, is spoken or thought of by Me, ’tis necessarily True.”
Strictly, it only proves that something exists. I could be just a thought of the demon. Though, granted again, a simulation also exists in some meaningful sense. Which gas raised the moral concern for mental constructions and simulations.
This underscores the need for me to add some further thought/guidance/context about these post-answer. :D