byrnema comments on The Wannabe Rational - Less Wrong

31 Post author: MrHen 15 January 2010 08:09PM

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Comment author: byrnema 17 January 2010 05:28:13AM *  2 points [-]

Exactly! I think this is exactly the sort of 'solution' that I hoped physical materialism could propose.

I'd have to think about whether the source of the problem is what Peter has guessed (whether this particular confusion) but from the inside it exactly feels like a hard-wiring problem (given by evolution) that I can't reconcile.