Maybe. In this case, most would agree that at this level of vagueness saying that two thinkers are contemplating exactly the same idea is incorrect and misleading terminology, and your comment suggests that you don’t actually mean that.
Okay. It’s like a hypothesis about future revelations, where both Aquinas and I are being shown a series of different agents and we’d agree more than my prediction of LW priors would suggest as to which of those agents were more or less Godlike. It’s like we have different labels for what is ultimately the same thing but we don’t even know what that thing is yet; but the fact that they’re different labels is misleading as to the extent to which we’re talking or not talking about what is ultimately the same thing. Still, point taken.
Maybe. In this case, most would agree that at this level of vagueness saying that two thinkers are contemplating exactly the same idea is incorrect and misleading terminology, and your comment suggests that you don’t actually mean that.
Okay. It’s like a hypothesis about future revelations, where both Aquinas and I are being shown a series of different agents and we’d agree more than my prediction of LW priors would suggest as to which of those agents were more or less Godlike. It’s like we have different labels for what is ultimately the same thing but we don’t even know what that thing is yet; but the fact that they’re different labels is misleading as to the extent to which we’re talking or not talking about what is ultimately the same thing. Still, point taken.