MrMind comments on Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 05 September 2016 07:39:37AM 0 points [-]

This is all fine and dandy as long as the virtual reality that we create has no causal power over the underlying reality. We all know that reductionism is a way to simplify reality so that it may be fungible to our brains, after all "there's no plane, there are only quarks".
Does it say if this virtual reality has any precedence over the underlying causal reality?