thomblake comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 02 May 2012 05:29:19PM *  1 point [-]

An important point.

Heraclitus probably didn't believe in lack of identity of individual particles, but he did believe we are patterns of information, not particular stuff.

EDIT: On second thought, he'd probably work out lack of identity of individual particles if pressed, following from that.