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1. Introduction to The Fabric of Reality List
2. Posting to the List
o What sort of posts are welcome on this List?
o How to send messages to the whole list
3. The Fabric of Reality List Posting Guidelines
o Content
o Privacy
o Replies
o Format
- How to stop your email program automatically sending
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o How to subscribe to the List
o How to unsubscribe

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Introduction to The Fabric of Reality List

The List Owner is Sarah Lawrence <[email protected]>

The purpose of this list is to consider the issues raised in the
work of David Deutsch, and related matters -- *from the point of
view of reason and existing scientific knowledge*.

How much can our deepest theories of the world -- including
quantum physics and the theories of evolution, computation and
knowledge -- explain? Do they point the way to "a unified theory
of everything that is known", as David Deutsch argues? Is quantum
theory literally true, as the many worlds view (and most thinking
in the field of quantum cosmology and of quantum computation)
assumes? Is the human race "...just a chemical scum on a
moderate-sized planet, orbiting round a very average star in the
outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies", as Stephen
Hawking asserts? What are the implications of quantum theory for
the understanding of the significance of knowledge? Is certainty
possible in mathematics? Where does free will and consciousness
fit in the picture painted by science? What is the scope of
virtual reality and of computation in general, including quantum
computation? What are the implications of the nature of the
fabric of reality for everyday life?

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Posting to The Fabric of Reality List

What sort of posts are welcome on this List?

Discussions of speculative science are acceptable on this list,
but pseudoscience, fringe science and anti-science are not. Posts
of this nature will be rejected. If you try to breach this rule
often, you may be unsubscribed. Posts promoting any religion, or
the paranormal, telepathy, dowsing, ESP, fortune-telling, crystal
balls, psychic phenomena, UFOs, alien abduction, faith healing,
weeping statues, mysticism, spiritualism, witches, witch-doctors,
magic, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, auras,
crop circles, and the like, are inappropriate and will not be
tolerated on this List.

Deutsch has expressed a willingness occasionally to contribute
to the List and to answer subscribers' questions.

How to send messages to the whole List

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The Fabric of Reality List Posting Guidelines

The List is moderated. However, not all messages are treated by
hand, so the appearance of a message on the List does not imply the
approval of the moderator(s).

Do not assume that the moderators will pick up your mistakes in
posting! There are times when there is effectively no moderation at
all, so please ensure that your posts meet the following criteria,
in addition to the main criterion given above:

Content

* We are trying to retain a friendly atmosphere on this
List, and it is intended to be accessible to lay people,
so please bear that in mind when posting. Take the trouble
to put your points in non-technical form please.
* Please do not send off-topic messages to the List.
* No meta discussion:
- NOTE: "No meta discussion" is NOT a ban on any
discussion of metaphysical ideas. If you read about the sorts
of questions this List addresses in the introduction above,
you will see that many of them *are* philosophical questions.
"META DISCUSSION" means discussion *about the discussions* --
o about posting styles
o about what should be considered on-topic for this List
o about the attributes of a particular poster
o about the attributes of a particular discussion on the
List
... and the like...
-- instead of about *on-topic* matters.
* If a post makes you angry, please address the issues or
arguments rather than resorting to irrelevant personal attacks.
* Please do not send spams, ads, chain letters, virus warnings,
etc., to the List. If someone sends you a "warning" or a
"special offer" you are not sure about, check the urban legends
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* Please do not send "fluff" posts to the List unless they are
witty.
* Please do not send one-line, "content-less" posts such as "I
agree" to the List.
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Privacy

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referring to private email, or otherwise.

Replies

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message or do you intend it to go to the whole list? Might it be
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you are answering?
* Please send re-post requests to the individual poster, not the
whole list.
* Ensure that the subject of your messages is reflected in the
Subject: line of your posts. Change the Subject: line if
necessary.
* Please do not quote more than is necessary for context.
* If possible, include the full reference to the post to which you
are replying (for example: "On [date] at [time], [name and email
address] wrote:").

Format

* Please check that the width of your posts does not exceed 70
characters. Some people do not have wide screens.
* Large signatures annoy people unless they are interesting,
germane and changed regularly (the sigs, that is).
* To make posts easier to read, add white space. If you write
more than about four lines without a gap, consider breaking the
text into two or more paragraphs with space between them. It'll
encourage subscribers to read what you have written.

* Please do not send styled text, html, mime-encoded text or
any attachments. All attachments are automatically
discarded so such messages will never reach the List
subscribers. See below.

How to stop your email program automatically sending attachments

If you use Netscape Messenger or Microsoft Outlook or Exchange to
send email, you may be unaware that your program is automatically
sending annoying attachments whenever you send a message. This
feature has to be turned off. If you have not turned it off,
please do so. Such attachments contain absolutely unnecessary
duplicate messages in HTML coding. We do not accept messages with
these attachments, so please follow the instructions below to
turn off this feature of your email program or switch to an email
program that does not send attachments unless you tell it to.

To stop Netscape Messenger from sending a duplicate message in
HTML coding at the end of your normal message, go into Edit,
choose Preferences, then choose Mail and Newsgroups. Click on the
+, then from the resulting list choose Formatting. You'll see two
possibilities near the top: "Use HTML editor to compose messages"
or "Use plain text editor to compose messages." Be sure to choose
the plain text editor. You might also check the second option
below that: "Convert the message into plain text."

Also, go into Identity (also under Mail and Newsgroups) and be sure
that the bottom option ("Attach my personal card to messages as a
vCard") is *un*selected.

To stop Microsoft Outlook Express from sending its version of an
HTML attachment, please do the following:

Look under Tools, Options, Send, Mail Sending Format. Check the
box that says "Plain Text" (instead of "html").

If you are using Outlook 2000, go to Tools/Options, find the tab
labelled "Mail Format", the section labelled "Message Format", and
the select box labeled: "Send in this message format:". Check the
box that says "Plain Text" (instead of "html").

To stop Microsoft Exchange from appending a WINMAIL.DAT binary
attachment, go to the Microsoft site and consult the Knowledge
Base article entitled "Preventing WINMAIL.DAT Sent to Internet
Users."

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