Through an Event Log, Darkly

Keith Douglas · The Information Society · 2010

In this article, the author discusses how computer virtualization technologies (e.g., VMWare) provoke metaphysical and epistemological problems (e.g., a version of the experimenter's regress) similar to but not identical to familiar philosophical concerns. A sketch at resolution of one is proposed; the others are suggested as interesting open research problems in the area of potential limitations of computing.

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