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From: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Re: the Halting problem.
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-70 11:44:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 11:44:36 1970
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> Whereupon a strange, unreadable look came over Dean's face, and he called to
> someone I couldn't see, "Okay, jig's up! Cut! He figured it out." (Hands
> motioning, now) "Get, those props out of here, tear down those building
> fronts, ... "
> 
> Scared the pants off me.
> 
> Michael Condict   ...!cmcl2!csd1!condict
> New York U.

    Interesting example.  Does anyone out there recall the SF story that carried
essentially the same theme?  The hero felt that the whole world was a prop meant
to fool him, and one time when he ran back through the rain to close a window in
the house he discovered that they had forgot to make it rain behind that window,
instead the sun was shining.
    When it comes down to it, how can you tell.  If the worlds a facade its done
very well (and by someone with a morbid imagination).  It seems unlikely that
anyone will make a mistake.  So you might as well assume that its real since you
are unable to prove otherwise.

                                            -kee