How An Algorithm Feels From Inside - LessWrong
"If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" I remember seeing an actual argument get started on this subject—a fully naive argument that went nowhere near Berkeleyan…
x How An Algorithm Feels From Inside — LessWrong A Human's Guide to Words Cognitive Reduction Philosophy of Language Rationality Frontpage 319 How An Algorithm Feels From Inside by Eliezer Yudkowsky 11th Feb 2008 5 min read 85 319 "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" I remember seeing an actual argument get started on this subject—a fully naive argument that went nowhere near Berkeleyan subjectivism. Just: "It makes a sound, just like any other falling tree!" "But how can there be a sound that no one hears?" The standard rationalist view would be that the
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