An interesting exercise would be to try to imagine a society of humans whose minds operated the way most intellectuals today imagine human minds operate.
For instance, see the recent post by LukeProg on values being relative. What would people be like if they really did have states as terminal values, the way folk psychology says they do?
Another exercise is: What would society be like if everyone knew how their minds operated? How would we act if people didn’t believe in free will? (Asking that question gives me a headache… it seems to imply that we have free will.) How would we act if we were rational utility-maximizers?
An interesting exercise would be to try to imagine a society of humans whose minds operated the way most intellectuals today imagine human minds operate.
For instance, see the recent post by LukeProg on values being relative. What would people be like if they really did have states as terminal values, the way folk psychology says they do?
Another exercise is: What would society be like if everyone knew how their minds operated? How would we act if people didn’t believe in free will? (Asking that question gives me a headache… it seems to imply that we have free will.) How would we act if we were rational utility-maximizers?