jimrandomh comments on How to think like a quantum monadologist - Less Wrong

-14 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 October 2009 09:37AM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 19 October 2009 10:48:24PM 3 points [-]

This is an instance of the fallacy described in Explaining vs Explaining Away. Color can be explained by neuroscience and physics, but it can't explain color away because it's still there after you learn what underlies it. You don't have to modify physics to make color real, because it's already real, as an abstraction layered on top of physics.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 20 October 2009 04:42:07AM 2 points [-]

Mitchell did acknowledge the existence of the identity view.