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It may be - probably is - a feature of the limits of our mental processes so far. But there's no good reason to assume the system itself just happens to mirror
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
It may be - probably is - a feature of the limits of our mental processes so far.
But there's no good reason to assume the system itself just happens to mirror those limits. It would be very strange if the entire universe worked in inconsistent ways that matched the naive reasoning of some not very interesting animals on an ordinary star in the middle of nowhere.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoWe agree on human incompleteness. One limitation of recent tree-dwellers on utterly unremarkable small blue-green planets on the western spiral arm of the galaxy might be how we think about things like "consistent"? Or "knowable"? What if those things weren't a component of intelligence at all, but features a singularity which looks different depending on which side you approach it from? In maths, that's not even weird? [0] [0] https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/yip-2025/ https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/yip-2025/