byrnema 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...