[extropy-chat] Role of Observer is not Relevant

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:13:17PM -0400, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

> In what way are the referents of the concept "chicken" existentially
> different from the referents of the concept "17"?

No different, as long as you don't count them before they hatch.

More seriously, when you track your external environment, you have 
to do both the quantity and the quality part. Numbers are not at
all different from chickens, as far as neuron spike-counters are
concerned.

Mmh, all this talk about beans and chickens is making me hungry.

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