Jon Zingale wrote: > The preoccupation with arguing over base ontological commitments reminds me > of the *existential detectives* and their nemesis in the movie *I <3 > Huckabees*. Will demanding that the universe is > determined, or almost as random as can be, or simulatable move any other > conjectured model forward? I suspect that it has the effect of putting the > discussion in a holding pattern. In each case, we are making unknown claims > as to what the universe is, or at best wagering as to what we feel the > universe will have turned out to be in some obnoxiously absolute way. > Neutered from a motivating investigation and the development of a model, we > may as well exclaim the names of numbers at one another.
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