katydee comments on Aliveness in Training - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 31 October 2013 06:55:53AM *  7 points [-]

I could believe that my 'O' and 'P' keys have been swapped, and thus anticipate that pressing my 'O' key will result in a 'P' and vice versa. This belief is clearly meaningful-- it means something-- but it also happens to be false. It passes the making beliefs pay rent test-- but that isn't a test for whether or not something is true.