On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Benjamin Caplan <celestialcognit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with the precedent that the rules can > be overridden by reality. Surely the rules are unlimited in scope, and > can create legal fictions of nonexistence (CANNOT publish) just as > easily as they can create legal fictions of existence (various assets).
I prefer to believe that they create alternate universes rather than legal fictions, and if your consciousness remains in a universe where reality won that's just your bad luck.
