pwno comments on Striving to Accept - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 March 2009 11:29PM

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Comment author: pwno 10 March 2009 01:24:20AM *  0 points [-]

we have difficulty with but the presence of many phenomena outside our usual experience.

Everything is equally a phenomena, just some phenomena we have or haven't evolved to be un-astounded by. Conversely, there are some phenomena we are more inclined to be astounded by, namely, waterfalls.