Vladimir_Nesov comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 August 2010 01:54:01PM *  2 points [-]

Why do we happen to have a "preference" for a highly ordered world?

Evolution happened in that ordered world, and it built systems that are expected (and hence, expect) to work in the ordered world, because working in ordered world was the criterion for selecting them in that ordered world in the past. In order to survive/replicate in an ordered world (narrow subset of what's possible), it's adaptive to expect ordered world.