Lexicon of Arguments

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I 263ff
Laws of Nature: the laws of nature to which the counterfactual implicitly refers are the laws that are actually obeyed in other universes, namely the laws of quantum theory!
(Other authors: there are probably universes in which certain laws of nature are suspended).
>Natural laws, >Counterfactuals, >Quantum mechanics.
I 300
Simulation/Laws of Nature: in virtual reality you can travel at the speed of light, or even build a perpetuum mobile. No matter how reasonable considerations concerning virtual reality can prove, a certain process is allowed by laws of nature (even though one can prove that it is not allowed).
>Simulation.
If we had come to an opposite conclusion, based on the Turing principle, time travel would be physically impossible.
>Time travel.

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