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Comment author: [deleted] 25 April 2012 06:58:11PM *  1 point [-]

Does

The most astounding fact about the universe is the knowledge that everything we perceive—color, sound, and even energy itself—is a process that involves our consciousness.

hurt you in your LessWrong Parts? (the article's conclusion)

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 07:28:13PM 5 points [-]

Not as much as "physics is wrong because our brains are magical because I say so", but yes, it does.

That our perceptions are a process that involves our consciousness (however you want to define that) is, technically, a fact about the universe, but only in the same way "my cat's breath smells like cat food" is a fact about the universe.

The perceptions fact (insofar as it is a fact) is more of a statement about human cognition than it is about the universe. It may very well be the statement he finds most astounding about the universe, but it's not the core of the paradigm-busting central theory of everything he purports it to be.