CCC comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2012 10:12PM

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 October 2012 11:02:56PM 4 points [-]

I'm not convinced I'm keeping my levels of reference straight, but if I can knowingly consistently accurately talk about epiphenomena, doesn't the structure or contents of the uncausing stuff cause me to think in this way rather than that way? I'm not sure how to formalize this intuition to tell if it's useful or trivial.

Comment author: CCC 21 October 2012 11:00:22AM 1 point [-]

Then it's not uncausing. It has caused you to think in this way rather than that way.