pdf23ds comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdf23ds 05 October 2008 12:12:28AM 3 points [-]

"So invoking them do not give us any more information."

I do think we get a little: if such constraints exist, they are a property of the patterns themselves, and not a property of the low-level substrate on which they are implemented. If such a thing were true in this world, it would be a property of people and societies, not a metaphysical property. That rules out a lot of religion and magical thinking, and could be a useful heuristic.