You can dispense with having beliefs at all as well, but by that point we’re essentially dispensing with being a mind at all
To some extent yeah, but for example, think of a corporation or a state government or something. In some narrow-ish senses it has greater power / knowledge / ability / skill / capability compared to an individual human; and that’s not entirely just due to having collected several humans, but also partly due to some narrow usefulness of the corporate structures themselves, so this entity has some degree of its own reality if you see what I mean. In many important ways it’s incoherent, doesn’t have beliefs, isn’t a mind, is very inefficient, etc.; but it’s definitely some type of thingy, if you know what I mean, so such things aren’t necessarily uninteresting.
To some extent yeah, but for example, think of a corporation or a state government or something. In some narrow-ish senses it has greater power / knowledge / ability / skill / capability compared to an individual human; and that’s not entirely just due to having collected several humans, but also partly due to some narrow usefulness of the corporate structures themselves, so this entity has some degree of its own reality if you see what I mean. In many important ways it’s incoherent, doesn’t have beliefs, isn’t a mind, is very inefficient, etc.; but it’s definitely some type of thingy, if you know what I mean, so such things aren’t necessarily uninteresting.