Really enjoyed this article! Your comment here was also helpful, but left me with a couple questions.
The concept of goals gets pretty slippery as you do this because being takes precedence over doing.
How do you see motivation working once you start abandoning the concept of goals?
What if something you “terminally” desire in the world isn’t a fit for reality? Would you rather discover that and grieve, or not look and keep trying?
Could you give a specific example of a terminal value failing to fit reality, and what abandoning it/changing it to fit reality would look like?
I’m having difficulty understanding exactly what an answer of “such a probability does not exist” means in this context. Assuming we both were subjected to the same experiment, but I then assigned a 50% probability to being the Original, how would our future behaviour differ? In what concrete scenario (other than answering questions about the probability we were the Original) would you predict us to act differently as a result of this specific difference in belief?