brazil84 comments on Consistently Inconsistent - LessWrong

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Comment author: brazil84 05 August 2011 02:04:43PM 5 points [-]

I agree 100%. I think Eliezer made this point very nicely a few years back:

Some philosophers have been much confused by such scenarios, asking, "Does the claimant really believe there's a dragon present, or not?" As if the human brain only had enough disk space to represent one belief at a time! Real minds are more tangled than that.

. . Yet it is a physical fact that you can write "The sky is green!" next to a picture of a blue sky without the paper bursting into flames.