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The disgust response is a rather silly foundation for a world view. It’s like a life lived as one long eeewwwwwwwwww… But approximately 75% of world views are founded on exactly that
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Isn't everything just post hoc justifications of one's life path dependant aesthetics? Disgust, anger, etc. qualia are where all value / axiomatic choices really come from.
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We're implicitly creating them by our choices. People aren't super consistent, but most often arguments when arguments aren't from definitional/semantic confusion, they're from different implicit axioms which recur in all of their arguments.
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Are you able to reduce his axioms to a fundamental set of 5 or even 50? I bet not. Humans aren’t axiomatic. We hold hundreds of fragmented belief islands, each based on a few situational rather than axiomatic beliefs. Hedgehog-mind is an illusory map on top of a fox territory.
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We agree that's there's lot of islands, etc. (I am an SFI fan after all) But I actually think I could reduce it to about 50 to get 80% predictability on his views a priori. Most people have pretty low Kolmogorov Complexity and are decently consistent.
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I'm trying to figure out how to test it. Maybe one group of people asks some questions & records responses, and another group is given the question and tries to come up with axioms that correspond predict the response?
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The fact that you’re thinking in terms of language and self-reported surveys tells me we’re pretty much talking about entirely different levels of belief. Disgust shapes the bottom 90% of the iceberg. Surveys get at a fraction of the 10% at best.
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