Vladimir_Nesov comments on Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 July 2009 02:19AM

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Comment author: pjeby 04 July 2009 02:04:47AM -2 points [-]

are you really saying there's no such thing as cause and effect? That the smashing of the glass on the floor has nothing to do with the dropping of it the moment before?

"Smashing", "glass", and "floor" also only exist as labels, because reality only has one level.

(See also Timeless Physics for why "cause and effect" aren't what we think they are, either.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 July 2009 10:20:59AM 2 points [-]

That territory has only one level (a thesis of reductionism) means that it doesn't compute in terms of high-level concepts, but the high-level concepts still refer to the real clusters of configurations of territory.