What’s useful about them? If you are going to predict (the belief in) qualia, on the basis of usefulness , you need to state the usefulness.
There might be some usefulness!
The statement I’d consider is “I am now going to type the next characters of my comment”. This belief turns out to be true by direct demonstration, it is not provable because I could as well leave the commenting to tomorrow and be thinking “I am now going to sleep”, not particularly justifiable in advance, and it is useful for making specific plans that branch less on my own actions.
I object to the original post because of probabilistic beliefs, though.
To your objection: Again, EN knew that you will object. The thing is EN is very abstract: It’s like two halting machines who think that they are universal halting machines try to understand what it means that they are not unversal halting machines.
They say: Yes but if the halting problem is true, than I will say it’s true. I must be a UTM.
There might be some usefulness!
The statement I’d consider is “I am now going to type the next characters of my comment”. This belief turns out to be true by direct demonstration, it is not provable because I could as well leave the commenting to tomorrow and be thinking “I am now going to sleep”, not particularly justifiable in advance, and it is useful for making specific plans that branch less on my own actions.
I object to the original post because of probabilistic beliefs, though.
Thanks for being thoughtful
To your objection: Again, EN knew that you will object. The thing is EN is very abstract: It’s like two halting machines who think that they are universal halting machines try to understand what it means that they are not unversal halting machines.
They say: Yes but if the halting problem is true, than I will say it’s true. I must be a UTM.