Ian_C. comments on Disjunctions, Antipredictions, Etc. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ian_C. 10 December 2008 03:40:17AM 1 point [-]

The idea of making a mind-design n-space by putting various attributes on the axis, such as humorous/non-humorous, conceptual/perceptual/sensual, etc. -- how much does this tell us about the real possibilites?

What I mean is, for a thing to be possible, there must be some combination of atoms that can fit together to make it work. But merely making an N-space does not tell us about what atoms there are and what they can do.

Come to think of it, how can we assert *anything* is possible without having already designed it?