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Thoughts on The Replacing Guilt Series⁠ — pt 1
dragohole10

We're assuming that 'literally nothing [of importance] changes'.

I'm not claiming it follows from what I described earlier in the post, it's an assumption, made in order to make a point, because thought experiment :)

Albeit I concede that it's not clear from what I wrote.

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Thoughts on The Replacing Guilt Series⁠ — pt 1
dragohole10

Nothing incoherent about the first part with the spaceship.

What's an actual mind? How do you know that a dog has it? Would you care about an alien living creature that has a different mind-design and doesn't feel qualia? Anyway, if you have no reason to think that the element is absent, then you'll believe that it's present. It's precisely because you feel that something is (or will be) missing, you refuse the offer. You do have some priors about what consequences will be produced by your choice, and that's OK. Nothing incoher... (read more)

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2dxu
My philosophy of mind is not yet advanced enough to answer this question. (However, the fact that I am unable to answer a question at present does not imply that there is no answer.) In a certain sense, I don't. However, I am reasonably confident that regardless of whatever actually constitutes mindfulness, enough of it is shared between the dog and myself that if the dog turns out not to have a mind, then I also do not have a mind. Since I currently believe I do, in fact, have a mind, it follows that I believe the dog does as well. (Perhaps you do not believe dogs have minds. In that case, the correct response would be to replace the dog in the thought experiment with something you do believe has a mind--for example, a close friend or family member.) Most likely not, though I remain uncertain enough about my own preferences that what I just said could be false. I agree with this, but it seems not to square with what you wrote originally:
On Hollywood Heroism
dragohole10

Oh, absolutely. Whatever your values are, they're valuable on their own. That's why doing the laundry feels meaningful. Winning means maximizing your values, whatever they are. The reframe of "X is actually good for Y" is helpful for transitioning to the state of valuing everything that IS valuable, coming from the point of being obsessed with one arbitrary thing.

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Hammertime Day 3: TAPs
dragohole60

I'm pretty late to the party, huh. Despite that, I'm really glad I can take part in this experience. It's the very thing I longed for: concrete instructions, baby steps, daily progress.

Now, my Sapience Spell:

It was kinda hard to think of a thing-that's-always-on-me. I don't really have prominent moles or rings, a bauble would stay on my desk even if I had it. One idea was to use my phone, but then I thought of situations where I didn't have it on me, and I would have really benefited from increased awareness back then.

I made o... (read more)

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4alkjash
No worries, I wrote the thing at my own pace with the expectation that as an instructional tool people would want to space it out over much longer than a month anyway.