Dre comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Psychohistorian 03 February 2010 08:01PM

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Comment author: Dre 04 February 2010 01:43:05AM 3 points [-]

It seems interesting that lately this site has been going through a "question definitions of reality" stage (the ai in a box boxes you., this series). It does seem to follow that going far enough to materialism leads back to something similar to Cartesian questions, but its still surprising.

Comment author: byrnema 04 February 2010 01:49:58AM 2 points [-]

Indeed. My hunch is that upon sufficiently focused intensity, the concept of material reality will fade away in a haze of immaterial distinctions.

I label this hunch, 'pessimism'.

Comment author: loqi 04 February 2010 08:46:25AM 2 points [-]

Solipsism by any other name...

Comment author: Jonii 04 February 2010 04:42:51AM 3 points [-]

It does seem to follow that going far enough to materialism leads back to something similar to Cartesian questions, but its still surprising.

Surprising? As the nature of experience and reality is the "ultimate" question, it would seem bizarre that any attempt to explain the world didn't eventually lead back to it.