Maybe your utility system works, but I don’t feel like it matches our world.
Plus, what does the “negation” of an event even mean? If someone that I care about dies, I feel sad. If they then come back, I don’t feel not-sad, rather I’d be pretty disturbed (and of course happy) because what the hell just happened.
That is to say, if you stab me, but then use a magic wand to make it go away, I don’t go back to normal, I become really scared of you instead.
You could say that “negating” an event turns it into “it never happened”. But then I don’t know what it means or how you could steer actions with it. You can’t “negate” events that already happened, so, best you can do with the model is “yeah, I guess we shouldn’t have done that”?
Maybe your utility system works, but I don’t feel like it matches our world.
Plus, what does the “negation” of an event even mean? If someone that I care about dies, I feel sad. If they then come back, I don’t feel not-sad, rather I’d be pretty disturbed (and of course happy) because what the hell just happened.
That is to say, if you stab me, but then use a magic wand to make it go away, I don’t go back to normal, I become really scared of you instead.
You could say that “negating” an event turns it into “it never happened”. But then I don’t know what it means or how you could steer actions with it. You can’t “negate” events that already happened, so, best you can do with the model is “yeah, I guess we shouldn’t have done that”?
If an event happens, then the negation of the event is that event not happening.
Someone you like dying is A.
Negation A is the person living.
Does it “not happen” or does it “unhappen” or does it “get fixed”?