false_vacuum comments on What is your rationality blind spot? - Less Wrong

11 Post author: shminux 20 December 2011 07:18PM

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Comment author: false_vacuum 22 December 2011 05:16:45AM 0 points [-]

Mmm. Sounds familiar. But what do you mean by '"physics all the way down"'?

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 23 December 2011 05:15:09PM 0 points [-]

Thou Art Physics or, as a philosophical position, reductionism or materialism.

Comment author: false_vacuum 27 December 2011 12:47:47AM *  0 points [-]

Well, another possibility would have been the negation of (what's usually called around here) Tegmark's Level IV. (That's probably not the only other possibility.)

ETA: Not that your interpretation isn't the obviously correct one.