Nisan comments on A case study in fooling oneself - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: Nisan 15 December 2011 10:53:38PM 4 points [-]

By the way, I don't know what I think about Emile's comment, but I don't think it's worth making a fuss over, as it was a response to smk's question which was basically, "How many elementary tensors make up a nonelementary tensor? Btw I don't know math."

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 16 December 2011 03:32:07AM 4 points [-]

But you and your whole observed reality are being identified with an elementary tensor here. If the answer to the question "How many elementary tensors make up a nonelementary tensor?" is "undefined, there is no answer, it depends on definition", then we have just proved that the world isn't an elementary tensor, because the existence of "you and your whole observed reality" is not just a matter of definition.