Barry_Cotter comments on Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Barry_Cotter 10 May 2011 03:40:23PM * 0 points [-]

Materialist as in reductionist, as in Thou Art Physics not as in being materialistic.

Comment author: Swimmer963 10 May 2011 04:01:21PM 0 points [-]

Ok (sigh of relief). That's what I thought but I'm not used to seeing the word used to mean 'reductionist'.

Comment author: saturn 10 May 2011 06:25:15PM * 2 points [-]

Not exactly. Strange as it sounds, there are non-reductive materialist philosophers.

Comment author: DSimon 10 May 2011 07:06:38PM * 1 point [-]

We are all reductionist girls*, living in a reductionist world.

* For a sufficiently broad value of "girls", or a sufficiently narrow value of "all".