Will_Pearson comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2008 08:15AM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 09 April 2008 09:34:15PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer: It is not, "I believe the coin has landed heads," that I think, "the coin has landed heads," implicitly embodies. It is the belief that such things as coins, landing and heads, are meaningful concepts (clusters in thingspace if you have to).

If you want to continue the map analogy, parts of the key of the map.

""coin" is a meaningful concept," carries no information above, "the coin has landed heads," because you would hope that all statements are meaningful and so all their constituent concepts.