Glen writes:
< I don't know. Eric's pointing out (I think) both the bootstrapping concept (writing a compiler in the language it compiles) *and* the ontological status of levels in, eg, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
Things like state space reconstruction and the holographic principle seem to flow directly from Nick's objection to nature's phenomena being generated by a language/mechanism that's beyond experience. >
Experiment seems to address but not resolve experience to me. How can
this be more than an wizard’s elaborate spell? Don’t basic questions like whether there is randomness in the universe matter? If not, what _does_ matter? Just knowing the spells?
A not insignificant, but minor issue to me is the difference between fast and slow thinking. There’s a difference between a taxi driver taking me across London through dozens of small and large streets and
me following GPS to do the same. The taxi driver can holistically see the route from hundreds of other possible routes.
Marcus
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