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| | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | These numbers describe in an essentially non-spatial and temporal way a virtual space and time, within which things can "exist," "move" and "do things." For example, in the computer's memory might be stored the number seven, corresponding to a bird. |
 | | This, in turn, is linked to four further numbers representing three dimensions of space and one of time--that is, the bird's position. |
 | | Suppose further the computer contains also the number one, corresponding to the viewer and again linked to four further numbers for the viewer's position, plus another three giving the direction in which the viewer's virtual eyes are looking. |
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