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> Imagine an alien race with the cognitive faculties to reason about individual electron trajectories. Would those aliens fall back to the same abstraction? Ho
by kordless 11y ago
> Imagine an alien race with the cognitive faculties to reason about individual electron trajectories. Would those aliens fall back to the same abstraction?
How am I to answer that if the assumption there are individual electrons is wrong?
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoAdditionally, how are we to answer that if the assumption that aliens could or should possess such faculties is wrong? There is no finite amount of processing power that makes individual electron trajectories feasible or rational to reason about in the general-case.