Joseph Knecht, you call it a quibble, but it seems to me that it is the whole key to dissolving the question of free will and could-ness. If Eliezer really did subtly violate the Taboo in a way I didn’t notice, then what I have in my head is actually a mysterious answer to a mysterious question; I’m at a loss to reconcile my feeling of “question dissolved!” with your assertion that the Taboo was violated.
Joseph Knecht, you call it a quibble, but it seems to me that it is the whole key to dissolving the question of free will and could-ness. If Eliezer really did subtly violate the Taboo in a way I didn’t notice, then what I have in my head is actually a mysterious answer to a mysterious question; I’m at a loss to reconcile my feeling of “question dissolved!” with your assertion that the Taboo was violated.