Do we actually have a disagreement here? I’m saying that actually-existing humans can’t actually do this. You seem to be saying that it’s conceivable that future humans might develop a protocol for doing this, and it’s worth exploring.
These can both be true! But in the meantime we’d need to explore this with our actually-existing minds, not the ones we might like to have, so it’s worth figuring out what the heck we’re actually doing.
I agree that it would take some work to figure out how to do this well.
I would say “figure out how to do this well” is at a similar level of complexity to “figure out what the heck we’re actually doing.” The “what should we do” question is more likely to have a clean and actionable answer. The “what do we do” question is more relevant to understanding the world now at the object level.
Do we actually have a disagreement here? I’m saying that actually-existing humans can’t actually do this. You seem to be saying that it’s conceivable that future humans might develop a protocol for doing this, and it’s worth exploring.
These can both be true! But in the meantime we’d need to explore this with our actually-existing minds, not the ones we might like to have, so it’s worth figuring out what the heck we’re actually doing.
I agree that it would take some work to figure out how to do this well.
I would say “figure out how to do this well” is at a similar level of complexity to “figure out what the heck we’re actually doing.” The “what should we do” question is more likely to have a clean and actionable answer. The “what do we do” question is more relevant to understanding the world now at the object level.