I’m not quite convinced that illusionism is decision-irrelevant in the way you propose. If it’s true that there is no such thing as 1st-person experience, then such experience cannot disclose your own values to you. Instead, you must infer your values indirectly through some strictly 3rd-person process. But all external probing of this sort, because it is not 1st-person, will include some non-zero degree of uncertainty.
One paradox that this leads to is the willingness to endure vast amounts of (purportedly illusory) suffering in the hope of winning, in exchange, a very small chance of learning something new about your true values. Nihilism is no help here, because you’re not a nihilist; you’re an illusionist. You do believe that you have values, instantiated in 3rd-person reality.
Can you elaborate what such a process would be? Under illusionism, there is no first person perspective in which values can be disclosed (namely, for hedonic utilitarianism).
Personhood is a separate concept. Animals that may lack a personal identity conception may still have first person experiences, like pain and fear. Boltzmann brains supposedly can instantiate brief moments of first person experience, but they lack personhood.
The phrase “first person” is a metaphor borrowed from the grammatical “first person” in language.
I’m not quite convinced that illusionism is decision-irrelevant in the way you propose. If it’s true that there is no such thing as 1st-person experience, then such experience cannot disclose your own values to you. Instead, you must infer your values indirectly through some strictly 3rd-person process. But all external probing of this sort, because it is not 1st-person, will include some non-zero degree of uncertainty.
One paradox that this leads to is the willingness to endure vast amounts of (purportedly illusory) suffering in the hope of winning, in exchange, a very small chance of learning something new about your true values. Nihilism is no help here, because you’re not a nihilist; you’re an illusionist. You do believe that you have values, instantiated in 3rd-person reality.
Or some other first person process.
Can you elaborate what such a process would be? Under illusionism, there is no first person perspective in which values can be disclosed (namely, for hedonic utilitarianism).
Ilusionism denies the reality of qualia, not personhood.
Personhood is a separate concept. Animals that may lack a personal identity conception may still have first person experiences, like pain and fear. Boltzmann brains supposedly can instantiate brief moments of first person experience, but they lack personhood.
The phrase “first person” is a metaphor borrowed from the grammatical “first person” in language.