wnoise comments on The two insights of materialism - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Academian 24 March 2010 02:47PM

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Comment author: wnoise 24 March 2010 06:05:24PM 3 points [-]

(And at the everyday scale, we get useful cognitive work out of the matter-vacuum distinction.)

Fair enough. I suppose it'd be more accurate to say that whatever matter is fundamentally, so is everything, which is not at all the same thing as matter is fundamental.