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ModusPonies comments on [Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ModusPonies 27 September 2012 02:47:48PM 2 points [-]

Other: all of these seem like plausible models with a nonzero amount of predictive power. I don't see how the truth of one of these implies that the others are false. Representationalism and sense-datum theory seem the most useful, I guess, but my real answer is "I don't know, ask a neurologist."

Comment author: BrassLion 01 October 2012 03:01:46PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure how you would even create a test to distingush these models. I'm not sure if my understanding is incomplete or if that's a warning sign that they aren't different or aren't coherent.