Isn’t it the case that our reasoning about that is in itself part of the role we are currently playing?
Yep. That’s why this is a weaker partial solution than is Looking.
Is there even such a thing as “the things our inner selves want, independently of the role”?
I claim yes, kind of.
There’s secretly a type error embedded in here, but language is horrid for pointing this particular thing out, so I’ll just gesture toward the wave of mystical stuff that keeps saying “there is no self” and claim that there’s some implicit confusion in the ontology I read being used here.
But if we ignore that and round it to the nearest true thing as I understand it… then yes, your “inner self” can want things in a way that isn’t derived from your position in the web. That’s part of why Looking is even possible.
Yep. That’s why this is a weaker partial solution than is Looking.
I claim yes, kind of.
There’s secretly a type error embedded in here, but language is horrid for pointing this particular thing out, so I’ll just gesture toward the wave of mystical stuff that keeps saying “there is no self” and claim that there’s some implicit confusion in the ontology I read being used here.
But if we ignore that and round it to the nearest true thing as I understand it… then yes, your “inner self” can want things in a way that isn’t derived from your position in the web. That’s part of why Looking is even possible.