pdf23ds comments on Above-Average AI Scientists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdf23ds 29 September 2008 02:55:41AM 5 points [-]

A sensible reductionist theory doesn't claim that everything is reducible to something more basic. It claims that everything is reducible to a set of fundamental entities, (which are not in turn reducible to anything else,) governed by consistent laws.