Armok_GoB comments on The Nature of Self - Less Wrong

3 Post author: XiXiDu 05 April 2011 10:52AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 April 2011 12:21:21PM 2 points [-]

It can't be reliably so answered, but it's often the best tool we have, and the thing to do when dissatisfied with quality of the best available option is not to discard it.

There are ways of improving the intuitions though, patching particular problems in them, and some even appear in this post. Continuity of experience is one such confused notion, which gives a good argument against immediate intuition in the relevant situations.