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

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Comment author: reguru 09 September 2016 06:03:04PM 0 points [-]

I don't know what that means.

The truth that the map is not reality, without adding another map, by direct, subjective experience. This is a map.

You don't claim direct unmediated access to the underlying reality, do you?

Assumption or strawman?

Comment author: Lumifer 09 September 2016 08:25:57PM 1 point [-]

Mumbo-jumbo deepities.

I'm out.

Comment author: reguru 09 September 2016 09:15:33PM *  0 points [-]

So it was a straw man?

Comment author: Lumifer 10 September 2016 01:54:55AM 0 points [-]

No, it was a failed attempt to communicate.

Comment author: reguru 10 September 2016 02:24:21PM *  0 points [-]

All types of communication are the same, it's a subjective experience which can't be communicated.