DanArmak comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: DanArmak 05 December 2012 08:48:01PM 3 points [-]

Let positive and negative energy sum to nothing.

That doesn't mean you don't talk about energy as a basic ontological kind. You still have to talk about it - to say that its value happens to be zero.

Whether it is actually zero, is an empirical matter. I haven't heard of physical theories that claim this, so what do you mean exactly?