Caring about what our psychological makeup determines we’re capable of believing, instead of partially operating only on surface reasoning until you change your psychological makeup, is a preference. It’s not a law that you must believe things in whatever sense you mean it for these things to matter. It may be useful for acquiring knowledge, but it’s not “correct” to always do everything that maximally helps your brain know true things. It’s not avoiding mistakes—it’s just selling your soul for knowledge.
Caring about what our psychological makeup determines we’re capable of believing, instead of partially operating only on surface reasoning until you change your psychological makeup, is a preference.
You can’t change your psychological makeup to allow you to hold a self-consistent system of beliefs that would include the belief that you are your body. Even if you could (which you can’t), you haven’t done it yet, so you can’t currently hold such a system of beliefs.
It’s not a law that you must believe things in whatever sense you mean it for these things to matter.
If you don’t believe any system of statements that includes that you are your body, then you have no reason to avoid a mind upload or a teleporter.
If you want to declare that you have null beliefs about what you are and say that you only care about your physical body (instead of believing that that is you), that’s not possible. Humans don’t psychologically work like that.
it’s not “correct” to always do everything that maximally helps your brain know true things
Caring about what our psychological makeup determines we’re capable of believing, instead of partially operating only on surface reasoning until you change your psychological makeup, is a preference. It’s not a law that you must believe things in whatever sense you mean it for these things to matter. It may be useful for acquiring knowledge, but it’s not “correct” to always do everything that maximally helps your brain know true things. It’s not avoiding mistakes—it’s just selling your soul for knowledge.
You can’t change your psychological makeup to allow you to hold a self-consistent system of beliefs that would include the belief that you are your body. Even if you could (which you can’t), you haven’t done it yet, so you can’t currently hold such a system of beliefs.
If you don’t believe any system of statements that includes that you are your body, then you have no reason to avoid a mind upload or a teleporter.
If you want to declare that you have null beliefs about what you are and say that you only care about your physical body (instead of believing that that is you), that’s not possible. Humans don’t psychologically work like that.
You can’t avoid that. By the time you are avoiding doing something that would maximally help you know the truth, you already know your current belief is false.