alyssavance comments on The Value of Nature and Old Books - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alyssavance 26 October 2009 08:33:53PM 2 points [-]

I think the primary reason people feel some special attachment to nature is that nature contains optimizing processes other than us. In a universe without sentient aliens, nature is the next best thing.