It’s the “decided” part that’s the problem: beliefs are not supposed to involve any “deciding”.
I can pretty easily shift my perspective such that learning what I’m going to do feels like realizing that my action is overdetermined, rather than like “deciding”, for almost every action (and better meditators can get every action to feel this way). What I do to achieve this is: manually redefine my identity to exclude most of my decision-making process. Similarly, many people include part of their world-model in their identity, such that learning about the world can feel like deciding something. The world-model’s doing very similar computation to the planner and whatnot, it seems reasonable for some people to include it.
There’s priors, there’s evidence, and if it feels like there’s a degree of freedom in what to do with those, then something has probably gone wrong.
Can just as easily say “There’s beliefs, there’s values, and if it feels like there’s a degree of freedom in what to do with those, then something has probably gone wrong.”. There’s only one optimal decision, given a set of beliefs and values. (Of course we’re bounded, but that applies just as well to what we do with beliefs and evidence.)
I can pretty easily shift my perspective such that learning what I’m going to do feels like realizing that my action is overdetermined, rather than like “deciding”, for almost every action (and better meditators can get every action to feel this way). What I do to achieve this is: manually redefine my identity to exclude most of my decision-making process.
Similarly, many people include part of their world-model in their identity, such that learning about the world can feel like deciding something. The world-model’s doing very similar computation to the planner and whatnot, it seems reasonable for some people to include it.
Can just as easily say “There’s beliefs, there’s values, and if it feels like there’s a degree of freedom in what to do with those, then something has probably gone wrong.”. There’s only one optimal decision, given a set of beliefs and values. (Of course we’re bounded, but that applies just as well to what we do with beliefs and evidence.)