spuckblase comments on Rationality Quotes - July 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: spuckblase 09 July 2009 01:09:27PM 0 points [-]

I suspected you might pay attention to that detail. The appropriate generalization just says that you don't expect the same laws to apply at different levels

What detail? What generalization of what? Is this supposed to be a refutation? If so, of what? Translation needed.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 July 2009 01:26:05PM 0 points [-]

Sorry for the confusion. The detail of using the word "deepest" that doesn't apply to the case where there is no bottom, and generalization from systems with a bottom to systems without. It was supposed to be a clarification of the sense in which I consider "mental" entities and what would make them irreducible.

Comment author: spuckblase 09 July 2009 01:59:39PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the attempt to clarify it for me. Do we actually disagree? Anyway, ill try to do a top-level post tomorrow to shake your (apparent) belief that mental entities need to have non-mental parts.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 July 2009 02:28:59PM *  -1 points [-]

I see this whole discussion as royally confused and not worth pursuing unless a much more technical setting is introduced.

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