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Comment author: Lumifer 17 September 2014 04:06:45PM 0 points [-]

It matters for practical reasons. Self as an "information pattern" is an abstraction and abstractions do not exist in reality.

Comment author: hyporational 17 September 2014 04:09:40PM 0 points [-]

Do fluids and solids exist in reality?

Comment author: Lumifer 17 September 2014 04:19:43PM 0 points [-]

Things with particular properties exist in reality, their categorization (e.g. into fluids and solids ) does not.

Comment author: hyporational 17 September 2014 04:26:46PM 0 points [-]

I suppose brains or selves don't exist in reality either. I'm not sure what we're getting at here. So where are categories then, if they don't exist in reality?

Comment author: Lumifer 17 September 2014 04:41:30PM 0 points [-]

I suppose brains or selves don't exist in reality either.

Brains certainly do :-)

So where are categories then, if they don't exist in reality?

In your mind.

Comment author: hyporational 17 September 2014 04:51:23PM *  0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure brain is a category too. Certainly more so than fluid or solid.

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