gwern comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 07 October 2009 04:14:19PM 0 points [-]

Hm, yes, I was a bit familiar with Freud, but I was hoping for ties to biochemistry; it's one thing to intuit that the mind has n bits of energy & forces sloshing around and if they can't come out in sex they have to come out elsewhere, and entirely another to have a specific, materialist model of what's going on. I haven't found anything for the latter.