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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8614841" data-attributes="member: 22779">No, it's not.&nbsp; Because a wibble has no meaning outside of the game.&nbsp; It only exists within the game.&nbsp; Thus, you cannot generate any meaningful narration from it.&nbsp; Wibble has exactly the same meaning as Hit Points. Hit Points only exist within the game and have no actual meaning any more than the suit of a card has any meaning outside of a card game.&nbsp; The fact that you pulled a spade or a club from a deck of cards doesn't tell you anything unless you attach some meaning to those suit beforehand.&nbsp; This gets us right back to the basic disagreement I think.&nbsp; You seem to think that a simulation can be solely self-referential.&nbsp; I do not.&nbsp; A simulation that is only referencing the things within that simulation and does not correlate to anything about what that simulation is trying to simulate isn't a simulation.&nbsp; A simulation has to actually correlate to something outside of the simulation or it's not actually simulating anything.Is this what you mean by &quot;pre-authored words&quot;?&nbsp; Because, I'm sorry, I really don't know what that means.&nbsp; Aren't all words pre-authored?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8614841, member: 22779"] No, it's not. Because a wibble has no meaning outside of the game. It only exists within the game. Thus, you cannot generate any meaningful narration from it. Wibble has exactly the same meaning as Hit Points. Hit Points only exist within the game and have no actual meaning any more than the suit of a card has any meaning outside of a card game. The fact that you pulled a spade or a club from a deck of cards doesn't tell you anything unless you attach some meaning to those suit beforehand. This gets us right back to the basic disagreement I think. You seem to think that a simulation can be solely self-referential. I do not. A simulation that is only referencing the things within that simulation and does not correlate to anything about what that simulation is trying to simulate isn't a simulation. A simulation has to actually correlate to something outside of the simulation or it's not actually simulating anything. Is this what you mean by "pre-authored words"? Because, I'm sorry, I really don't know what that means. Aren't all words pre-authored? [/QUOTE]

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