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I've been thinking lately that the reason facilities of our minds are simply a reflection of physical reality but only one version of it most useful for survivi
by flippyhead 9y ago
I've been thinking lately that the reason facilities of our minds are simply a reflection of physical reality but only one version of it most useful for surviving at the scales in which we exist and give the "reality problems" we've evolved to solve. The idea that our perceptions indicate some truth about reality becomes easier to discount.
We may not quite be there but in terms of the reasoning facilities of our minds, we seem to have understood nearly all that can be understood about the universe. All the quantum stuff is simply not understandable using all that machinery but seems to require we run a virtual-machine like thing grafting reason onto weird probabilistic models. Given all this, I don't immediately assume the most "elegant" solution is really the best anymore for most of the big problems we're now trying to solve. At least in the domain of science.