James_Miller comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Torello 01 September 2014 07:06:59PM 4 points [-]

Perceiving magic is precisely the same thing as perceiving the limits of your own understanding.

-Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, (e-reader does not provide page number)

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 September 2014 01:54:37AM 2 points [-]

You could also be perceiving something way way past the limits of your own understanding, or alternately perceiving something which would be well within the limits of your understanding if you were looking at it from a different angle