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Descartes "evil demon" from 1641 says Wikipedia is the philosophical idea in all it's forms short of "but with a computer" Anyone got anything earlier? Wouldn'

by harry8 4y ago

Descartes "evil demon" from 1641 says Wikipedia is the philosophical idea in all it's forms short of "but with a computer" Anyone got anything earlier? Wouldn't surprise me. https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/ https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/

blazespin 4y ago
pretty sure first person that had a dream figured out VR.
- Yahivin 4y ago
  Or peyote.
- harry8 4y ago
  yeah maybe kinda? Lack of control of the dream there that makes a difference for mine. YMMV. Dunno when lucid dreaming was discovered. Was there something written down about it by one of the ancient greeks or similar vintage?
earthboundkid 4y ago
Descartes explicitly wrote about automatons and telling them apart from people using language and reasoning as sign posts (“the Turing test” three hundred years before Turing).