RE: to Russell Standish

From: Charles Goodwin <cgoodwin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:58:48 +1300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wei Dai [mailto:weidai.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2001 10:22 a.m.
>
> I don't think you have solved the white rabbit paradox.
> You've tried to
> explain why we perceive the world to be relatively simple
> given our own
> information processing abilities, but you have not tried to
> explain why we
> ourselves are relatively simple. Why are our own minds
> relatively simple
> and regular, considering that intelligent minds can be arbitrarily
> complex? Your observer-relative approach does not and can not
> answer that
> question.

Surely evolutionary theory has something to say about this?
BTW, what is the "white rabbit paradox" ?

Charles
Received on Tue Nov 06 2001 - 13:56:16 PST