xrchz comments on Timeless Control - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xrchz 01 November 2009 09:24:08PM 1 point [-]

I think when people say that apples and choices are illusions, they might mean that they are patterns recognizable by people but not fundamental: if some system couldn't recognize an apple (perhaps only because it never had any reason to form the concept) but did have a model of the amplitude distribution of the universe, it would get along just fine (actually it would probably just have different high-level concepts).