Is ultimate truth a superstimulus?https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/31/truth-superstimulus/ …
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Replying to @ScottHYoung
I not sure about superstimulus, but it sure is more enticing to seek out extreme, simple answers than muddy but probably realistic ones. The whole of
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Replying to @utotranslucence @Meaningness
My own thoughts are inchoate, but the superstimulus idea might be that truths are often relative (i.e. my model of reality works better than yours in situation X). "Ultimate" truths, may be seductive (a model that is better than all other models), but these may not exist.
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Replying to @ScottHYoung @Meaningness
To the extent that all knowledge must be a reduction of reality itself (else the map would be as large as the territory), and purposes for models are different, there may not be a "best" model, even if we naively expect one.
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Replying to @ScottHYoung @Meaningness
Kind of like how we naively expect there to be some sort of aggregate preference, but Arrow's Impossibility Theorem shows there can be sets of people's preferences for which there is cycles A > B > C > A. There might be for truths A > (is more true) B > C > A. No end, just a loop
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