DSimon comments on Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia - LessWrong

47 Post author: AnnaSalamon 16 November 2011 06:03PM

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Comment author: DSimon 17 November 2011 07:09:52PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't "uncertainty" also reduce to a mental state?

Comment author: dlthomas 17 November 2011 07:23:07PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, in humans. And granted, in any other reasoning engine it will reduce to a physical state. This is mostly irrelevant, however. It reduces to a physical state because your map reduces to a physical state. This makes it still a claim about the territory when you're a part of the territory (as is true for us, but wouldn't necessarily be true for an entity watching our simulation or whatever), but it doesn't make it not a claim about the map. Marriage, I assert, is not a claim about maps at all.