Martin, what I'm about to say doesn't prove or disprove anything in your last post, but it surely could impress one that here is one further example of Meyer's (and various others') observation that explanatory mechanisms that smart people use to simplify puzzles so often parallel the newest shiny technologies. Computer simulation.
What would be the moral consequences if this were true? (Dare I mention morality? Does anyone but me still ask what that word means!?)
And what difference would it make for us??
Occam's razor.
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