Leonhart comments on Mainstream Epistemology for LessWrong, Part 1: Feldman on Evidentialism - LessWrong

16 Post author: ChrisHallquist 16 November 2013 04:16PM

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Comment author: Leonhart 16 November 2013 06:14:08PM *  2 points [-]

Chris, to assist me in joining this to LW-ideas: when Feldman speaks of "spontaneously formed beliefs" and "proper responses to experience", is he pointing to the same notion EY was pointing to with "dynamics" in Created Already in Motion? A transformation of experience into belief that happens automatically and outside awareness?

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 16 November 2013 06:30:25PM *  1 point [-]

Maybe? They're not exactly the same thing, but maybe you could see them "pointing at" the same basic idea. Or that the kind of spontaneous belief formation/responses to experience Feldman talks about are examples of what Eliezer calls "dynamics."

EDIT: Another way to put it is that the problems being addressed are connected, but the terminology doesn't map well.