Stefan_Pernar comments on Protein Reinforcement and DNA Consequentialism - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 November 2007 01:34AM

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Comment author: Stefan_Pernar 13 November 2007 03:47:42AM 1 point [-]

logicnazi, he is making progress ;-)

Humans certainly aren't perfect at imagining. In fact if you ask most people to imagine a heavy object and a much heavier object falling they will predict the much heavier object hits first and I can give a host of other examples of the same thing.

When you ask someone to imagine something he is controlling his imagination which is equivalent to conscious though. What one can think of however is controlled by ones beliefs - what is skewed in humans is their beliefs, not their imagination. Once beliefs are being controlled by science one will imagine the falling consistent with the scientific theory forming ones beliefs. I would reword your sentence to: humans not usually form their beliefs on the basis of science.