I tend to think that more-or-less how we interpret the world is the simplest way to interpret it (at least for the mesa-scale of people and technologies. I doubt there’s a dramatically different parsing that makes more sense. The world really seems to be composed of things made of things, that do things to things for reasons based on beliefs and goals. But this is an intuition.
Clever compressions of complex systems, and better representations of things outside of our evolved expertise, like particle phsyics, sociology and economics, seem quite possible.
Good citation; I meant to mention it. There’s a nice post on it.
If System X is of sufficient complexity / high dimensionality, it’s fair to say that there are many possible dimensional reductions, right? And not just globally better or worse options; instead, reductions that are more or less useful for a given context.
However, a shoggoth’s theory-of-human-mind context would probably be a lot of like our context, so it’d make sense that the representations would be similar.
I tend to think that more-or-less how we interpret the world is the simplest way to interpret it (at least for the mesa-scale of people and technologies. I doubt there’s a dramatically different parsing that makes more sense. The world really seems to be composed of things made of things, that do things to things for reasons based on beliefs and goals. But this is an intuition.
Clever compressions of complex systems, and better representations of things outside of our evolved expertise, like particle phsyics, sociology and economics, seem quite possible.
Good citation; I meant to mention it. There’s a nice post on it.
If System X is of sufficient complexity / high dimensionality, it’s fair to say that there are many possible dimensional reductions, right? And not just globally better or worse options; instead, reductions that are more or less useful for a given context.
However, a shoggoth’s theory-of-human-mind context would probably be a lot of like our context, so it’d make sense that the representations would be similar.