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Manfred comments on Smart non-reductionists, philosophical vs. engineering mindsets, and religion - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 04 August 2012 10:48AM

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Comment author: Manfred 04 August 2012 01:59:55PM 8 points [-]

I find this interesting in the way that smart people are likely to disagree with the correct interpretation of some of its claims - while others would say the post is worshipping the mysterious, others would say that it's just making reasonable cautions about the inherent methodological limitations of a certain approach.

And still others, apparently, would say that this post is making an empirically testable claim about how the world works.