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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I personally define reality as any measurement that a machine (computer or robot) can take. As such, there is an objective reality.

Is there? How do you determine whether the machine doing the measurements is real?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The face punch method, (not a personal attack just a rather crude if effective philisophical tool) aka if I repeatedly punch you in the face you have a hard time continuing to argue that my fist is not real, or at the very least real enough for practical purposes. Personal involvment makes the situation a lot less abstract.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, I never argued that fist are not a good way to determine reality, but calling your fist a machine is cringe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Technically the person being punched is the machine in this situation, the fist is the thing being measured.