DanArmak comments on Why the beliefs/values dichotomy? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 20 October 2009 10:25:23PM 0 points [-]

I think that pretty much all nonhuman animals would also don't really have the belief/value distinction.

In that case, why exactly do you think humans do have such a distinction?

It's not enough to feel introspectively that the two are separate - we have lots of intuitive, introspective, objectively wrong feelings and perceptions.

(Isn't there another bunch of comments dealing with this? I'll go look...)

I think that having a belief/values distinction requires being at least as sophisticated as a human.

How do you define the relevant 'sophistication'? The ways in which one mind is "better" or smarter than another don't have a common ordering. There are ways in which human minds are less "sophisticated" than other minds - for instance, software programs are much better than me at memory, data organization and calculations.