pragmatist comments on 2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pragmatist 28 November 2013 10:01:36AM 3 points [-]

What I meant is, that (apart from positional information) you can only give one bit of information about the thing in question: it is there or not. There is no internal complexity to be described. Perhaps I overstreched the meaning of Kolmogorov complexity slightly. Sorry for that.

There's a quite popular view hereabouts according to which the universal wave function is ontologically basic. If that view is correct, or even possibly correct, your construal of "ontologically basic" cannot be, since wave functions do have internal complexity.

Comment author: EGI 29 November 2013 11:51:49AM 1 point [-]

Interesting thought. So how would you define ontologically basic?