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Monday, June 18, 2012

Matrix questions and intelligibility

If the question 'Are we living in a matrix?' can be taken seriously, it cannot also be a question which it is only possible to ask in the matrix world.

If we think of the matrix world as a kind of deception, and that we are deceived that we are asking a question - including a question about whether we live in a matrix world - then we are not asking a question.  If we are 'really' asking a question, then it is a question which makes sense in the 'real' world and so is not, itself, a product of the matrix.

If we can ask the question, some part of us is cognitively independent of the matrix.

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