In the second case, I’m suggesting that your shards actually do strengthen or weaken right then, due to cognition alone, in the absence of a reinforcement event. That’s the putatively mysterious phenomenon.
If the second thing is the same phenomenon as the first thing—just shards avoiding actions they expect to lead to rival shards gaining strength—then there’s no mystery for shard theory. Maybe I should deny the evidence and just claim that people cannot actually uproot their held values simply by sitting and reflecting—for now, I’m unsure.
In the second case, I’m suggesting that your shards actually do strengthen or weaken right then, due to cognition alone, in the absence of a reinforcement event. That’s the putatively mysterious phenomenon.
If the second thing is the same phenomenon as the first thing—just shards avoiding actions they expect to lead to rival shards gaining strength—then there’s no mystery for shard theory. Maybe I should deny the evidence and just claim that people cannot actually uproot their held values simply by sitting and reflecting—for now, I’m unsure.