Subject: Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?
We all have to remember that those other folks on the board aren't just patterns of bits.

Jim

...or are we?...

Et tu, Mungo?
This "it from bit" nonsense reminds me of Descartes' (I think) hydraulic theory of the nervous system. Because that was the state of the art of technology in his time. Or the Silicon Valley idiot savants wondering if life is a simulation because they play too many video games and have no imagination.
At least the ancients' models acknowledged all three aspects of knowable universe - dnyata, dneya, dnyan (knower, known (object), knowledge). I thought quantum mechanics would firmly atrach back the knower into the two-legged stool that was Newtonian science. Alas.