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Leonhart comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 June 2013 06:12AM

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Comment author: Leonhart 11 June 2013 09:39:35PM *  0 points [-]

Added some, sorry. Cranes vs. skyhooks is the central metaphor of Darwin's Dangerous Idea but doesn't seem to have its own page anywhere; it seems to me akin to EY's notion of "follow-the-improbability".

"Figment" is from Consciousness Explained; it's sort of the notion of a volume of imagined colour. Dennett used it in a discussion of e.g. the retinal blind spot, to make the distinction between the brain's actively "filling in" a missing signal (which he takes to be a confused reification) versus the brain simply not caring about the missing signal.