Continuing from yesterday…<\/p>\n
The next morning I woke up and I had thought of a counterexample. When I saw Steve the next morning I described my scenario.<\/p>\n
I said to Steve “Suppose you wanted a soda so you gave me five dollars to go to the deli. I put your bill in my pocket, go to the deli counter and order a bottle of soda.<\/p>\n
“The guy behind the counter scans my bill and says ‘This is counterfeit.’ I end up coming back without any soda. You go thirsty.”<\/p>\n
“What,” I asked, “is the essential difference between that and the scenario you described?”<\/p>\n
We both realized that culturally speaking this was essentially the same scenario, despite the large difference in technological enablement. In both cases you sincerely believe that you are living in a well defined shared physical reality. Yet at the end of the day, you don’t get to have a sip of that soda.<\/p>\n
Which speaks to my larger point: The key element here is not physicality, but culture, sociology and psychology. And those factors are really about us humans, not about any given state of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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