Experience is not mysterious thing. It is a means of accumulating data that an agent could be designed to start with. It is a way of traing behaviors that an agent can be designed to start out executing.
This follows from a non-soulist perspective, which means that we fundamentally differ in our opinions. Sorry. And I know it isn’t a response; the proper response, as I said, requires too great an inferential distance.
What can your theory not explain?
Here lies the key to my puzzle; the reason I’m attempting to instigate a crisis of faith. I don’t know the answer to this question, but I am searching desperately for it.
This follows from a non-soulist perspective, which means that we fundamentally differ in our opinions. Sorry. And I know it isn’t a response; the proper response, as I said, requires too great an inferential distance.
Can you explain how the predictions that a soulist perspective makes differ from the predictions that a non-soulist perspective makes? If you have particular beliefs about how the soul relates to experience, can you think of a test that could falsify those beliefs?
This follows from a non-soulist perspective, which means that we fundamentally differ in our opinions. Sorry. And I know it isn’t a response; the proper response, as I said, requires too great an inferential distance.
Here lies the key to my puzzle; the reason I’m attempting to instigate a crisis of faith. I don’t know the answer to this question, but I am searching desperately for it.
Can you explain how the predictions that a soulist perspective makes differ from the predictions that a non-soulist perspective makes? If you have particular beliefs about how the soul relates to experience, can you think of a test that could falsify those beliefs?
I’m workin’ on one. :3 That’s the crux of my argument, the difficulty I’m having, the reason I’m questioning in the first place.