Thanks for linking me to that. It’s pretty crazy how similar our approaches to the topic are, down to pointing out emotions aren’t beliefs and suggesting the same solution of “getting out of the way”. I suppose very few ideas are original, but it still weirds me out to how similar our approaches are. I suppose we both probably read Barbarians vs. Bayesians and maybe that has something to do with it?
I suppose I’m more skeptical than Nate about how easy it is to access these states when they are not coherent with your beliefs. He seems to act as though they are mostly or completely independent, while I feel that it is only in particular circumstances when an ordinary person would be able to intentionally create a disjunction.
Thanks for linking me to that. It’s pretty crazy how similar our approaches to the topic are, down to pointing out emotions aren’t beliefs and suggesting the same solution of “getting out of the way”. I suppose very few ideas are original, but it still weirds me out to how similar our approaches are. I suppose we both probably read Barbarians vs. Bayesians and maybe that has something to do with it?
I suppose I’m more skeptical than Nate about how easy it is to access these states when they are not coherent with your beliefs. He seems to act as though they are mostly or completely independent, while I feel that it is only in particular circumstances when an ordinary person would be able to intentionally create a disjunction.