“And even if you have a mind that does carry out modus ponens, it is futile for it to have such beliefs as…
(A) If a toddler is on the train tracks, then pulling them off is fuzzle.
(B) There is a toddler on the train tracks.
…unless the mind also implements:
Dynamic: When the belief pool contains “X is fuzzle”, send X to the action system.”
It seems to me that much of the frustration in my life prior to a few years ago has been due to thinking
that all other human minds necessarily and consistently implement modus ponens and the Dynamic: “When the belief pool contains “X is right/desired/maximizing-my-utility-function/good”, send X to action system”
These days my thoughts are largely occupied with considering what causal dynamic could cause modus poens and the above Dynamic to be implemented in a human mind.
IL: Timeless physics retains causality. Change some of the data on the hard drive and the other data won’t change as an inferential result. There are unsolved issues in this domain, but probably not easy ones. The process of creating the data on the hard drive might be necessarily conscious, for instance, or might not. I think that this was discussed earlier when we discussed giant look-up tables.
It seems to me that much of the frustration in my life prior to a few years ago has been due to thinking that all other human minds necessarily and consistently implement modus ponens and the Dynamic: “When the belief pool contains “X is right/desired/maximizing-my-utility-function/good”, send X to action system”
“And even if you have a mind that does carry out modus ponens, it is futile for it to have such beliefs as… (A) If a toddler is on the train tracks, then pulling them off is fuzzle. (B) There is a toddler on the train tracks. …unless the mind also implements: Dynamic: When the belief pool contains “X is fuzzle”, send X to the action system.”
It seems to me that much of the frustration in my life prior to a few years ago has been due to thinking that all other human minds necessarily and consistently implement modus ponens and the Dynamic: “When the belief pool contains “X is right/desired/maximizing-my-utility-function/good”, send X to action system”
These days my thoughts are largely occupied with considering what causal dynamic could cause modus poens and the above Dynamic to be implemented in a human mind.
IL: Timeless physics retains causality. Change some of the data on the hard drive and the other data won’t change as an inferential result. There are unsolved issues in this domain, but probably not easy ones. The process of creating the data on the hard drive might be necessarily conscious, for instance, or might not. I think that this was discussed earlier when we discussed giant look-up tables.
This is so true