Peterdjones comments on Thou Art Physics - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2008 06:37AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 June 2011 12:41:48PM 1 point [-]

Because that -- "the mind exists out side of physics and manipulates it" -- is what it feels like.

Comment author: Peterdjones 07 July 2011 01:08:03PM -2 points [-]

Nope. It doesn't feel like we can generate an antigravity fieldand fly aroung. I do feel as though I can make choices. What has that got to do with being "outside physcis"? The issues of physical (in) determinism and their relation to FW are technical and complex, and not something that can be intuited. We can't have an intuition of being outside physics because we can't have an intuition of physics that is worth anything.