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Contents 1 Purpose of this article 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definitions 1.3 Philosophy

[edit] Purpose of this article

This article is a virtual-world simulation of the Simulated Reality article. 
I have set this up in an attempt to deal with all of the issues that have beset the original. 
It is my intention to keep this as 'clean' as possible, and remove anything which would get it
the 'unverified claims' attribution, and to attempt to remove the 'copy editing' tag.  
--TonyFleet 07:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction

I have tried to focus on what is actually written, and have deliberately mixed up philosphy, popular culture, science and science fiction. The simulation hypothesis is forefronted but not the simulation arguments, and this is deliberate, because i wanted to downplay these in favour of other material, which documents the SH in history, philosophy, science and culture, in an attempt to establish the academic credibility of the topic--TonyFleet 01:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definitions

I have introduced the distinction between Extrinsic and Intrinsic consciouness, because later on, it will be useful to distinguish between these cases, when, for example we are considering moral issues and scientific issues to do with time, biology etc.--TonyFleet 01:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philosophy

Underpinning this section are three main philosophical questions posed by Simulism:

• What is the true nature of consciouness?
• Are the mind and body distict, separate entities?
• What is the true nature of reality?--TonyFleet 12:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Now that I have begun to write this section, I realise that I have become completely bogged down in a surfeit of information. I am considering transporting much of this to The simulism Website and drastically pruning what I have written here. This will be difficult to do, given the nature of the topic and how it spreads itself into so many areas. The danger is in reducing it, it becomes more superficial, and less credible.

--TonyFleet 11:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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