simplicio comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong

95 Post author: simplicio 21 March 2010 07:08AM

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Comment author: simplicio 22 March 2010 01:31:07AM 0 points [-]

Oh, I see, sorry for the misunderstanding.

I think that there is a socially constructed blind spot around this point. People see that the "Nothing But" argument is claiming that materialistic reduction destroys love, beauty, temperature, and pressure. However claiming that materialistic reduction destroys temperature and pressure is silly.

Yes! Excellent point. I'm not even sure what "explaining away" means, for that matter. It seems to be another one of these notions that comes with a value judgment dangling from it.

Comment author: JGWeissman 22 March 2010 02:06:18AM 4 points [-]

I'm not even sure what "explaining away" means

http://lesswrong.com/lw/oo/explaining_vs_explaining_away/