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32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 09:02PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 11:36:24PM 5 points [-]

Nick, I'm honestly not sure if there's a difference between logical possibility and physical possibility - it involves questions I haven't answered yet, though I'm still diligently hitting Explain instead of Worship or Ignore. But I do know that everything we know about logic comes from "observing" neurons firing, and it shouldn't matter if those neurons fire inside or outside our own skulls.

Gray Area, what I'm arguing is that deduction, induction, and direct sensory experiences, should all be considered as equivalent-to-observation.