I took your survey, it was interesting.
I’m still a little skeptical that my thoughts on various propositions take the form of probabilities in the first place. It seems absolutist to say there’s zero chance of supernatural beings, but “ontologically basic mental entities” fit so poorly into my worldview that you might as well have said “What is the probability that you are wrong about everything?” So, I said zero, although I wouldn’t ascribe such absolute confidence to myself if asked in some other way, I think.
Similarly, your questions about God again pointed to this ‘basic mental entity’ idea, so I said zero again, although I’m sort of up in the air about the existence of beings beyond the scope of physical reality. It could all be a simulation, after all, and not necessarily of the same kind of universe as the simulator’s.
I took your survey, it was interesting. I’m still a little skeptical that my thoughts on various propositions take the form of probabilities in the first place. It seems absolutist to say there’s zero chance of supernatural beings, but “ontologically basic mental entities” fit so poorly into my worldview that you might as well have said “What is the probability that you are wrong about everything?” So, I said zero, although I wouldn’t ascribe such absolute confidence to myself if asked in some other way, I think. Similarly, your questions about God again pointed to this ‘basic mental entity’ idea, so I said zero again, although I’m sort of up in the air about the existence of beings beyond the scope of physical reality. It could all be a simulation, after all, and not necessarily of the same kind of universe as the simulator’s.