what is virtual

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a " virtual person "

would presumably be

a software rendition

on computer hardware

of what could " pass " for

being a person.

 

 

but if the hardware is a

human nervous system...

 

then the so-called person

(inhabiting that hardware,

I suppose we could say...)

is a software rendition

which " appears as " a person

 

 

so is it not at the very least

ironic that what is called an

*actual* person (as opposed to

a virtual one) is itself just

a software representation...

and that the representation is

*taken as* real, just as with

what is called virtual.

 

in other words, what is *not*

virtual?

 

even " reality " is necessarily

virtual, is it not?

 

and there is nothing fundamental

anywhere that can be pointed to

that is " real " ... (no, not even

simple sensory experience)

 

it is all a slippery sea of

slipperiness.

 

just a different way of looking at

the buddhist notion of impermanence

 

 

 

Bill (a convenient " handle " for the

software that is constructing this

message)