Nick_Tarleton comments on Timeless Causality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 29 May 2008 05:38:39PM 0 points [-]

No, because there are no causal relationships, or relationships at all, within the randomly generated memory. If all you know is the prior distribution, not that the large-scale structure is in fact meaningful, there's no mutual information between any of the bits; and even once you know all the bits, since they're independent and random you can't say "this bit is 1 because this bit is 0."

This all smells of Mind Projection Fallacy, now that I think about it.