Mitchell_Porter comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 17 September 2012 12:15:54AM *  3 points [-]

So you control absolutely everything, yet control next to nothing, a contradiction in terms, although an extremely convoluted system of hypotheses could eliminate that contradiction with some elaborate device explaining why your subconscious is so much more powerful and brilliant and consistent and mysterious than your conscious self is.

A hypothesis like... I'm dreaming.