This is a distraction from the actual point; of course if this happened to me, then my first priority would be getting help (I might be having a stroke, for instance). But once I’m at the hospital and they tell me that I’m all right, but something strange happened to my brain so that it falsely remembers 2 and 2 having made 4, instead of the obviously correct 3...
If you don’t agree that some set of circumstances like this should conspire to make me rationally accept 2+2=3, then if the scenario happened to you (with 3 and 4 reversed), you’re asserting that you could never rationally recover from that metal event. Since I’d prefer, should I go through a hallucination that 2 and 2 always made 3, to be able to recover given enough evidence, I have to take the “risk” of being convinced of something false, in a world where events conspired against me just so.
This is a distraction from the actual point; of course if this happened to me, then my first priority would be getting help (I might be having a stroke, for instance). But once I’m at the hospital and they tell me that I’m all right, but something strange happened to my brain so that it falsely remembers 2 and 2 having made 4, instead of the obviously correct 3...
If you don’t agree that some set of circumstances like this should conspire to make me rationally accept 2+2=3, then if the scenario happened to you (with 3 and 4 reversed), you’re asserting that you could never rationally recover from that metal event. Since I’d prefer, should I go through a hallucination that 2 and 2 always made 3, to be able to recover given enough evidence, I have to take the “risk” of being convinced of something false, in a world where events conspired against me just so.