Esar comments on Beware Selective Nihilism - Less Wrong Discussion
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I was being a bit ambiguous: I mean to talk about concrete individual tulips, not the species. Even given the framework in 'The Cluster Structure...", each actual tulip is a point in thingspace, not a cluster.
If an AI were to list all facts about the world, it would list that the wavefunction of the universe can be approximately factored into X, where X corresponds to what we would call an individual tulip. (Note that an individual tulip is also actually a cluster in configuration space, because it's a blob of amplitude-factor, not a single point in configuration space. Of course this cluster is much smaller than the cluster of all tulips.)
Okay, that answers my question, thanks.