I think a good way of setting up augmented reality is with CDT-style surgery on an algorithm. By uncoupling an enactable event (action/decision/belief) from its definition, you allocate a new free variable (free will) that the world will depend on, and eventually set that variable to whatever you decide it to be, ensuring that the cut closes. The trick is to set up the cut in a way that won’t be bothered by the possibility of divergence between the enactable variable and its would-be definition, and that’s easier to ensure in a specifically constructed setting of an agent’s abstract algorithm rather than in a physical world of unclear nature.
CDT surgery is pretty effective most of the time, but the OP describes some of its limitations. I’m confused—are you just claiming it is effective most of the time or that we shouldn’t worry too much about these limitations?
Surgery being performed on the algorithm (more carefully, on the computation specified by the algorithm) rather than on instances in the world is the detail that makes the usual problems with CDT go away, including the issues discussed in the post.
I think a good way of setting up augmented reality is with CDT-style surgery on an algorithm. By uncoupling an enactable event (action/decision/belief) from its definition, you allocate a new free variable (free will) that the world will depend on, and eventually set that variable to whatever you decide it to be, ensuring that the cut closes. The trick is to set up the cut in a way that won’t be bothered by the possibility of divergence between the enactable variable and its would-be definition, and that’s easier to ensure in a specifically constructed setting of an agent’s abstract algorithm rather than in a physical world of unclear nature.
CDT surgery is pretty effective most of the time, but the OP describes some of its limitations. I’m confused—are you just claiming it is effective most of the time or that we shouldn’t worry too much about these limitations?
Surgery being performed on the algorithm (more carefully, on the computation specified by the algorithm) rather than on instances in the world is the detail that makes the usual problems with CDT go away, including the issues discussed in the post.