MrHen comments on The Meditation on Curiosity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AngryParsley 02 February 2010 02:04:22AM 0 points [-]

There is a wall. That belief isn't accessible through critical examination.

Are you talking about separate magesteria or something? How does one get correct beliefs without examining evidence and understanding arguments?

Comment author: MrHen 02 February 2010 03:01:49AM 1 point [-]

No. This is not separate magesteria.

Okay, I guess the first point is that "belief" for a majority of my belief network was not Predictor based. It is Action based. The concept of separate magesteria applies to a Predictor based belief system such as the Map/Territory concept promoted here. An Action based belief system has trouble with the concepts of magesteria.

The whole system is ridiculously complicated because I never bothered to sit down and sort it out. Theism is behind a wall of beliefs built on a system completely incompatible with Predictor based beliefs. "Incompatible," here, means "untranslatable."

If I am not making sense I can try another path of explanation. I am typing up a full explanation now, actually, so... yeah.