As you learn more about the world, you are able to describe the way in which your brain-implemented judgment machinery depends on how the world works. This seems to be a reliable presentation of what has happened as a result of most of the discoveries that changed our view on fundamental physics so far. Not being able to formally describe how that happened is a problem that’s separate from deciding whether the preference defined in terms of vague brain-implemented concepts could be interpreted in terms of novel unexpected physics.
The step of re-describing status quo preferences in terms of a new understanding of the world (in this trivial sense I’m discussing) doesn’t seem to involve anything interesting related to the preferences, it’s all about physical brains and physical world. There is no point at this particular stage of updating the ontology where preferences become undefined or meaningless. The sense that they do (when they do) comes from the next stage, where you criticize the judgment procedures given the new better understanding of what they are, but at that point the task of changing the ontology is over.
As you learn more about the world, you are able to describe the way in which your brain-implemented judgment machinery depends on how the world works. This seems to be a reliable presentation of what has happened as a result of most of the discoveries that changed our view on fundamental physics so far. Not being able to formally describe how that happened is a problem that’s separate from deciding whether the preference defined in terms of vague brain-implemented concepts could be interpreted in terms of novel unexpected physics.
The step of re-describing status quo preferences in terms of a new understanding of the world (in this trivial sense I’m discussing) doesn’t seem to involve anything interesting related to the preferences, it’s all about physical brains and physical world. There is no point at this particular stage of updating the ontology where preferences become undefined or meaningless. The sense that they do (when they do) comes from the next stage, where you criticize the judgment procedures given the new better understanding of what they are, but at that point the task of changing the ontology is over.