For what it’s worth I think there needs to be some clarification.
I didn’t say our model is deterministic nor should it be or not. And my argument is not about whether the correct definition of knowledge should be “justified true belief”. And unless I have had the wrong impression, I don’t think Sean Carrol’s focus is on the definition of knowledge either. Instead, it’s about what should be considered “true”.
The usual idea of a theory being true if it faithfully describes an underlying objective physical reality (deterministic or not) is problematic. It suffers the same pitfall of believing I am a Boltzmann brain. It is due to the dilemma that theories are produced and evaluated by worldly objects while their truth ought to be judged with “a view from nowhere”, a fundamentally objective perspective.
Start reasoning by recognizing I am a particular agent, then you will not have this problem. I don’t deny that. In fact, I think that is the solution to many paradoxes. But the majority of people would start reasoning from the “view from nowhere” and regard that as the only way. I think that is what has led people astray in many problems. Like decision paradoxes such as Newcomb, anthropics and to a degree, quantum interpretations.
For what it’s worth I think there needs to be some clarification.
I didn’t say our model is deterministic nor should it be or not. And my argument is not about whether the correct definition of knowledge should be “justified true belief”. And unless I have had the wrong impression, I don’t think Sean Carrol’s focus is on the definition of knowledge either. Instead, it’s about what should be considered “true”.
The usual idea of a theory being true if it faithfully describes an underlying objective physical reality (deterministic or not) is problematic. It suffers the same pitfall of believing I am a Boltzmann brain. It is due to the dilemma that theories are produced and evaluated by worldly objects while their truth ought to be judged with “a view from nowhere”, a fundamentally objective perspective.
Start reasoning by recognizing I am a particular agent, then you will not have this problem. I don’t deny that. In fact, I think that is the solution to many paradoxes. But the majority of people would start reasoning from the “view from nowhere” and regard that as the only way. I think that is what has led people astray in many problems. Like decision paradoxes such as Newcomb, anthropics and to a degree, quantum interpretations.