Timeline for Is it irrational to assign a probability to a metaphysical proposition?
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| yesterday | comment | added | user80226 | @NotThatGuy philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/120516/80226 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | NotThatGuy | "If physicalism is true" - do you hold that physicalism is true? If not... why are you focusing on that (with only a single sentence dedicated to all alternatives)? The question doesn't mention it. Also, numbers might be one of the easiest things to represent and work with with physical systems (depends on the physical system, of course). The question of how physical systems create experiences is much harder (but I'd say consciousness reducing to the brain is still the best explanation for that that we have). | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Syed | They would exist in the bets that you take that are part of the physical world @user802276 | |
| yesterday | comment | added | user80226 | @Syed Again, epistemic probabilities either exist or don't exist. If physicalism is true, they would need to exist physically. If they are not a physical state in the brain, where else would they exist? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Syed | degree of belief is an epistemic probability, not an objective one | |
| yesterday | comment | added | user80226 | @Syed If determinism is true, then there is no probability, just a fixed action I would do given a fixed set of conditions. If indeterminism is true and there are objective probabilities governing random events in the universe, then there might be a probability that I will choose action X under circumstances C. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Syed | If the probability P is some level of money you would bet on given a particular kind of bet, it doesn’t need to be stored anywhere in the brain. The same way you moving your hand given me burning it doesn’t imply that this scenario is physically stored in your brain. | |
| yesterday | history | answered | user80226 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |