PhilGoetz comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

215 Post author: PhilGoetz 19 September 2009 09:05PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 20 September 2009 09:30:00AM *  8 points [-]

One of the big problems is that he was trying to talk about the logical correctness of human-level symbolic statements about the world. Even if the logic is correct, there is no correct, consistent mapping from the analog world, to symbolic descriptions, and back. A mapping that's close enough to work 99.99% of the time isn't good enough when you're talking about proof.