My dreaming brain isn’t entirely incapable of useful reasoning—sometimes I can recognize that I am dreaming and choose whether or not to wake up, although during a dream I also tend not to be capable of doing coherent reasoning for more than a short period of time.
I did say most dreaming humans. But the point isn’t how well dreamers can reason, that’s just an example and if it doesn’t serve it’s not essential. My argument was that imperfect reasoners can still be trusted because they can be evaluated empirically on their success, and their reasoning ability is caused by evolution and learning in an ordered environment; whereas Boltzmann brains are not grounded, and any correct reasoning they carry out will be an accident.
My dreaming brain isn’t entirely incapable of useful reasoning—sometimes I can recognize that I am dreaming and choose whether or not to wake up, although during a dream I also tend not to be capable of doing coherent reasoning for more than a short period of time.
I did say most dreaming humans. But the point isn’t how well dreamers can reason, that’s just an example and if it doesn’t serve it’s not essential. My argument was that imperfect reasoners can still be trusted because they can be evaluated empirically on their success, and their reasoning ability is caused by evolution and learning in an ordered environment; whereas Boltzmann brains are not grounded, and any correct reasoning they carry out will be an accident.