nshepperd comments on Causal Reference - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: nshepperd 25 October 2012 04:07:01PM 1 point [-]

We could discover that the characteristics of real particles are such that they are best (read: most simply) explained by some process that starts with simple particles and splits them into multiple levels with different properties, some of which epiphenomenal with respect to others.