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Real Unreality • The Meaning In and Of Life • Robotic Reasoning • Distilling Hegelian Spirit • Capital Letters • Godless Morality

Real Unreality

Dear Editor: In Issue 139, Harry Whitnall asks us to consider the proposal that the universe is a simulation, the result of a scientific experiment by more technologically advanced beings. If this idea were true then the simulation would also include our thinking about the universe being a simulation. In other words, we would be talking about a simulation thinking about a simulation. But can a simulation think about anything?

I thought that the idea of a totally simulated Universe had finally been put to bed, but it keeps cropping up. There are better things to think about!

Pamela White, Nottingham

Dear Editor: Thank you for PN Issue 139 and its focused analysis of AI.

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