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   From: Jack@nowhere.com   
      
   Andy Wainwright  posted   
   >The writings of Darwin supplanted Genesis in contemporary academic   
   >culture. I'd say The Matrix supplanted Darwin. So what if it was a   
   >fictional film, the guts of the story to me seem incredibly plausable-   
   >and the idea of a scientific model is to represent the world around us   
   >with a theory, and the Virtual Reality one makes more sense.   
   >   
   >You might laugh, so did people at Galilio.   
      
   They laughed at Coco the Clown too. They were right.   
      
   >"The world is just a form of videogame" makes no less sense to me than   
   >"The world is round". Of course, you might disagree, but can you   
   >disprove it conclusively. I'd say not.   
      
   They are different kinds of propositions. The former is not susceptible   
   to empirical testing. The latter is.   
      
   --   
   Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)