Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Thou Art Physics - Less Wrong
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Mous:
Sam B:
Consider rereading Dissolving the Question. You do not ignore "wrong questions". You take a step back and ask the question of cognitive science, "Why is my brain generating the appearance of a question here?" And then you don't come up with some evolutionary argument for why it would be advantageous, because that's not the 'why' you want; you want a detailed walkthrough of the malfunctioning cognitive algorithm.
Here, for example, I have endeavored to show an intuitive, non-explicit internal causal network that will generate wrong questions about conflicts between self and physics.
I liked Sam's biscuit tin analogy, though.
Shane:
But then why not just create a Grand System that includes the free thingy plus the system? Oh noes! Now the Grand System is determined!