Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Hand vs. Fingers - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2008 12:36AM

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Comment author: Unknown 30 March 2008 06:30:19PM 0 points [-]

Has anyone yet stopped to consider the fact that we came up with physics in order to predict what we would see, hear, and feel next?

If claims about seeing, hearing, and feeling, are literally statements about brains and atoms, why did we have to come up with physics at all? We should have already known what we were talking about.