
“Appendix Tractatus Logico-Minecrafticus (An exercise in the metaphysics of virtual reality, in the fashion of Ludwig Wittgenstein.) 1. The world is everything that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of arrangements, not of blocks. 1.11 The world is determined by the arrangements, and by these being all the arrangements. 1.12 For how the blocks are arranged determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case. 1.13 The actual arrangement of blocks in virtual space is the world. 2. What is the case, the arrangement, is the placement of individual blocks. 2.1 A placement is a combination of blocks (objects, things). 2.11 It is essential to a block that it can be placed in some spot or other. 2.12 If a block can be so placed, then this possibility must already lie within it; it is a parameter for the block. 2.13 The totality of blocks, as a whole, contain within themselves all of the possible placements. 2.2 An individual block is simple. 2.21 Each block is both form and matter. 2.211 (Those little chips that fly away when you chop at a”
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How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft
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