You’ll have to explain your position. I can’t see it. To clarify what I think, take “me” as a node, and recursively build a causality graph (Pearl’s thing) of all the causes that lead into that node. By some theorem somewhere, that graph will be connected. Then label that graph “my map of the universe” and label it’s compressing model “physics”. That is what “materialism” means to me.
I’ve just realized, tho, that the rest of you might attach a different concept to “materialism”, but I don’t know what it is. Can you give me a steel-man (or a straw man (or a nonmaterial entity)) version of what “materialism” means to you?
To clarify what I think, take “me” as a node, and recursively build a causality graph (Pearl’s thing) of all the causes that lead into that node. By some theorem somewhere, that graph will be connected. Then label that graph “my map of the universe” and label it’s compressing model “physics”. That is what “materialism” means to me.
I think you are making a category error with respect to what Pearl’s theory actually does.
You’ll have to explain your position. I can’t see it. To clarify what I think, take “me” as a node, and recursively build a causality graph (Pearl’s thing) of all the causes that lead into that node. By some theorem somewhere, that graph will be connected. Then label that graph “my map of the universe” and label it’s compressing model “physics”. That is what “materialism” means to me.
I’ve just realized, tho, that the rest of you might attach a different concept to “materialism”, but I don’t know what it is. Can you give me a steel-man (or a straw man (or a nonmaterial entity)) version of what “materialism” means to you?
I think you are making a category error with respect to what Pearl’s theory actually does.
care to expand? His bayesian networks stuff is for modelling causal relationships. Am I confused?
This comment by Argency explains what I mean by causality being incompatible with pure materialism.