ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong
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What do you exactly mean with "matter"?
If you want to define whether A matters for B, than it's central to look whether changes in A that you can classify cause changes in B.
When one speaks about doing one frequently doesn't think about actions like raising one heart rate by 5 bpm to signal that something created an emotional impact on yourself. If an attractive woman walks through the street and a guy sees her and gets attracted, you can say that the woman is doing something because she's reflecting light in exactly the correct way to get the guy attracted.
If you define "doing" that broadly it's not a useful word anymore. The cracked article from which I quoted doesn't seem to define "doing" that broadly. On the other hand it's no problem to define "being" broadly enough to cover all "doing" as well.