You know I really want to hug him
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Replying to @zerology @ThomasMetzinger
Especially since his books made me think that he went on a serious psychedelic and meditative journey to break out of his suffering, and he appears to have returned without lasting success.
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Replying to @Plinz @ThomasMetzinger
I mean, I too think he wanted to break out of suffering. I’m not sure about the “his”.
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Replying to @zerology @ThomasMetzinger
His concern for suffering obviously springs from his own inner experience. Once you realize the nature of suffering and change how it is implemented in your mind, the nature of your concern with suffering will change, and his apparently has not.
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Replying to @Plinz @ThomasMetzinger
If you are compassionate, you see that many will not “realize the nature of suffering”, and your realization doesn’t help them.
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Replying to @zerology @ThomasMetzinger
Once you fully integrate your mind, you should be concerned about a thing you want to affect exactly to the degree to which your concern can contribute to your efforts to affect it.
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Replying to @Plinz @ThomasMetzinger
Ex falso quodlibet; the inference is accepted. I mean, how can an agent “exactly” know that degree?
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Replying to @zerology @ThomasMetzinger
It is recursive. If you don't know, start a process of inquiry that is exactly fueled by the amount of concern that you think is appropriate based on the available information about the value of the information differential, and you know that you have done the best you could.
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Replying to @Plinz @ThomasMetzinger
I dont understand. To me, “affecting X” & “judging how much I can affect X” are different things, and I don’t see how to compare them.
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Pain is a signal used to adjust behavior. But if you cannot improve a thing, it is pointless to try to adjust it. If your pain generator properly figures that out, it can turn off the pain. If it does not, then its behavior should be adjusted by a secondary regulator, and so on.
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Replying to @Plinz @ThomasMetzinger
I see. You talk about the concern/pain/regulator only, not about a “correct” evaluation. So this is a kind of self consistency. Then agreed.
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Replying to @zerology @ThomasMetzinger
You should be concerned about having done the right evaluation to the degree to which you have reason to believe that you did, which might entail a second order evaluation etc.
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