I agree with Jan here, and how Jan’s comment connects with Thane’s comment elsewhere in this post’s comments.
I think that if ‘you’, as in, ‘your conscious, thinking mind’ chooses to write down that your values are X, where X is some simplified abstract rule system much easier to calculate than the underlying ground level details, then ‘you’ are wrong. The abstract representation is a map, not the territory, of your values. The values are still there, unchanged, hiding. When in a situation where the map finds itself in conflict with the territory, ‘you’ might chose to obey the map. But then you’ll probably feel bad, because you’ll have acted against your true hidden values. Pretending that the map is the new truth of your values is just pretending.
I agree with Jan here, and how Jan’s comment connects with Thane’s comment elsewhere in this post’s comments.
I think that if ‘you’, as in, ‘your conscious, thinking mind’ chooses to write down that your values are X, where X is some simplified abstract rule system much easier to calculate than the underlying ground level details, then ‘you’ are wrong. The abstract representation is a map, not the territory, of your values. The values are still there, unchanged, hiding. When in a situation where the map finds itself in conflict with the territory, ‘you’ might chose to obey the map. But then you’ll probably feel bad, because you’ll have acted against your true hidden values. Pretending that the map is the new truth of your values is just pretending.