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To: gore3000
No. It means computers can model reality.

No they cannot. Reality is too complex to be put into a computer program. Only a fool would think that Sim-City or the Sims are simulations of reality. They are abstractions modeled according to the thinking of the DESIGNERS as to what they wish to prove.

Do you read your own posts?

1,806 posted on 05/21/2003 9:45:52 PM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
Only a fool would think that Sim-City or the Sims are simulations of reality. They are abstractions modeled according to the thinking of the DESIGNERS as to what they wish to prove.

Only a fool would think that trigonometric proofs are simulations of reality. They are abstractions modeled according ot the thinking of the mathematicians as to what they wish to prove.

1,812 posted on 05/22/2003 12:19:43 AM PDT by donh (/)
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To: null and void
Do you read your own posts?

Yup, I sure do and your semantic nit-picking does not change the fact that you cannot simulate reality, that computer models are abstractions designed to prove what the designer wishes.

1,815 posted on 05/22/2003 4:58:20 AM PDT by gore3000
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