[extropy-chat] Reductionism

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Samantha Atkins wrote:
> 
>>
>> > Furthermore, I don't believe that you fully and consistently believe
>> > this either.
>>
>> Them's fighting words, Samantha.
> 
> By this I mean that you too make and must make use of various tools and 
> assumptions that you cannot fully reduce in order to function at all in 
> the world.    There is no need to fight over an obvious truth.  :-)

Name me a single concept I must use, for which I cannot give an 
experimentally testable consequence of its presence or absence.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence