395b78 comments on Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - Less Wrong

35 Post author: shminux 06 June 2014 11:53PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 June 2014 10:15:57AM -1 points [-]

In my opinion that is irrelevant as long as the information is not limited by the nature of the observer. However I don't intend to say that "having knowledge" could have a meaning outside some sort of a subjective thing having it. So I'd like to separate the idea of some kind of truth from a subjective experience of having it. If there is any truth like that. If there was, how could we know, if we don't currently? Does it make sense to contemplate on the possibility of there being knowledge we can't have? We are limited and we can't really think outside the box. Knowing that we can't think outside the box, does not provide the capacity to suggest everything that could be outside the box.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 June 2014 02:02:38PM *  2 points [-]

Depends on the value of can't. We can't have the knowledge in the library of Alexandria..but counterfactually we could have had.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 June 2014 02:52:15PM 0 points [-]

So I'd like to separate the idea of some kind of truth from a subjective experience of having it. If there is any truth like that. If there was, how could we know, if we don't currently?

That's a pretty well-trodden philosophy topic :-)