“I can only plead that when I look over my flawed mind and see a core of useful reasoning, that I am really right, even though a completely broken mind might mistakenly perceive a core of useful truth.”
“humans have received a moral gift, which Pebblesorters lack, in that we started out interested in things like happiness instead of just prime pebble heaps. Now this is not actually a case of someone reaching in from outside with a gift-wrapped box… it is only when you look out from within the perspective of morality, that it seems like a great blessing that there are humans around”
Quick question: do you intend the latter deflationary remarks to apply to your ‘epistemic gift’ too? That is, would you emphasize that your methods of reasoning are merely considered to be a gift from within your own perspective, and there’s not any further sense to the notion of ‘good priors’ or a ‘broken mind’ or ‘useful reasoning’ beyond the brute fact that you happen to use these words to refer to these particular epistemic norms? Or do you think there’s an important difference between the kind of (moral vs. epistemic) ‘mistakes’ made respectively by the Pebblesorters and the anti-Inductors?
“I can only plead that when I look over my flawed mind and see a core of useful reasoning, that I am really right, even though a completely broken mind might mistakenly perceive a core of useful truth.”
“humans have received a moral gift, which Pebblesorters lack, in that we started out interested in things like happiness instead of just prime pebble heaps. Now this is not actually a case of someone reaching in from outside with a gift-wrapped box… it is only when you look out from within the perspective of morality, that it seems like a great blessing that there are humans around”
Quick question: do you intend the latter deflationary remarks to apply to your ‘epistemic gift’ too? That is, would you emphasize that your methods of reasoning are merely considered to be a gift from within your own perspective, and there’s not any further sense to the notion of ‘good priors’ or a ‘broken mind’ or ‘useful reasoning’ beyond the brute fact that you happen to use these words to refer to these particular epistemic norms? Or do you think there’s an important difference between the kind of (moral vs. epistemic) ‘mistakes’ made respectively by the Pebblesorters and the anti-Inductors?