maybe i’d change my mind if i have such an experience, though hopefully not.
Not sure if I’m just being stupid in context, but doesn’t “your brain can sometimes do really weird shit” combined with “your mind is instantiated primarily via your brain” create a plausible physicalist causal path to “you’d change your mind”? That is, if the focus event is that your brain does something weird, and experiences and beliefs are both mediated by the brain, why can’t the same underlying phenomenon directly cause both the experience and the change in beliefs? Like a kernel memory management glitch in a computer could simultaneously cause display distortion and corrupt some file buffers on their way to persistent storage.
Not sure if I’m just being stupid in context, but doesn’t “your brain can sometimes do really weird shit” combined with “your mind is instantiated primarily via your brain” create a plausible physicalist causal path to “you’d change your mind”? That is, if the focus event is that your brain does something weird, and experiences and beliefs are both mediated by the brain, why can’t the same underlying phenomenon directly cause both the experience and the change in beliefs? Like a kernel memory management glitch in a computer could simultaneously cause display distortion and corrupt some file buffers on their way to persistent storage.