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> Deutsch is a physicist. so was Einstein. physics, philosophy, math, and a lot of other fields reward being able to find simplicity / symmetries. it's proba
by philsnow 9y ago
> Deutsch is a physicist.
so was Einstein. physics, philosophy, math, and a lot of other fields reward being able to find simplicity / symmetries. it's probably best to not discount people or their theories just because of a label attached to them.
- theoh 9y agoActually, I was trying to get at the fact that disciplines do operate like conversations: you can make an unsolicited contribution from outside to a philosophical discussion, but it's unlikely to be well received. The HN crowd probably has no difficulty seeing how this would be the case with e.g. (a recent example discussed here) "trisectors". Well, philosophy has its cranky outsiders too, up to and including Hawking (arrogantly?) declaring philosophy obsolete.