HedonicTreader comments on Concept Safety: What are concepts for, and how to deal with alien concepts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HedonicTreader 19 April 2015 03:07:59PM 0 points [-]

But does quantum physics really imply that food has no location and physicists don't need to eat?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2015 03:45:29PM *  1 point [-]

No, it's not the best example. But I for one am having trouble thinking of a more accurate one.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 April 2015 08:08:51PM 0 points [-]

If you could easily think of a concept then it wouldn't be an alien concept.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 19 April 2015 03:39:03PM 0 points [-]

QM makes all previous explanations for eating moot and one might make the rroneous leap that if ones understanding of eating (in terms of places and things and so on) is wrong that eating itself is meaningless. But this confuses the map with the territory.