[FRIAM] alternative response

[Steve Smith]

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.

42!



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