Understanding The World
“Small world” vs “Large world”
This idea is related to the thoughts in Reality is analog (https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-two/), where JF Martel argues that we mostly live in a conceptual overlay.
Organisms and algorithms live in two fundamentally different worlds.
Algorithms inhabit a “small wo
... See moreIn some areas, the process of reduction is a move in the direction of greater objectivity.
This principle is so strong, we mistake it to be a universal rule.
But in many cases it is not possible to learn how natural systems function collectively by considering the components separately and independently of the world they inhabit as it severs the rela
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