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I generally agree with PJ, but not in this case. I don't think that C exists, just U and sensory modalities that some parts of U can manipulate, and I think that U contains systems which are not actual agents and other systems that, while not conscious, ARE actual agents in the same sense that animals with a visual cortex are, others which are agents in the sense that animals that lack a visual cortex are, and other simple agents which can manipulate the sensory modalities in a stereotyped fashion (or censor the data coming into the sensory modalities) but which don't seek goals (or maybe, not outward directed goals).
How has this affected your understanding of your values?
I think I may be confused about my values partly because I'm not carving myself into pieces like this.
I see my symbolic centers as essentially a forum within which mutually beneficial sometimes timeless trades are negotiated between agents, some of which run on the same brain and some of which run in parallel in multiple brains. It looks more appealing, from the outside, than what I used to do, since it believes that it should. From inside, its nice because I'm getting all these gains from trade.