Yes the malicious demon was also the model that sprung to my mind. To answer your question; there are certainly possible minds that have “demons” (or faulty algorithms) that make finding their internal mistakes impossible (but my current model thinks that evolution wouldn’t allow those minds to live for very long). Although this argument has the same feature as the simulation argument in that any counterargument can be countered with “But what if the simulation/demon wants you to think that?”. I don’t have any real solution for this except to say that it doesn’t really matter for our everyday life and we shouldn’t put too much energy in trying to counter the uncounterable (but that feels kinda lame tbh).
I don’t have any real solution for this except to say that it doesn’t really matter for our everyday life and we shouldn’t put too much energy in trying to counter the uncounterable (but that feels kinda lame tbh).
I think this is true in every day life, but not true when you’re doing philosophy of mind like in the above post. I don’t think any of your argument is wrong, I just think you should include the possibility that your observations don’t exist in your reasoning.
Well to be fair this was just a short argument against subjective idealism with three pictures to briefly illustrate the point and this was not (nor did it claim to be) a comprehensive list of all the possible models in the field of philosophy of mind (otherwise I would also have to include pictures with the perception being red and the outside being green, or half being green no matter where they are, or everything being red, or everything being green etc)
Yes the malicious demon was also the model that sprung to my mind. To answer your question; there are certainly possible minds that have “demons” (or faulty algorithms) that make finding their internal mistakes impossible (but my current model thinks that evolution wouldn’t allow those minds to live for very long). Although this argument has the same feature as the simulation argument in that any counterargument can be countered with “But what if the simulation/demon wants you to think that?”. I don’t have any real solution for this except to say that it doesn’t really matter for our everyday life and we shouldn’t put too much energy in trying to counter the uncounterable (but that feels kinda lame tbh).
I think this is true in every day life, but not true when you’re doing philosophy of mind like in the above post. I don’t think any of your argument is wrong, I just think you should include the possibility that your observations don’t exist in your reasoning.
Well to be fair this was just a short argument against subjective idealism with three pictures to briefly illustrate the point and this was not (nor did it claim to be) a comprehensive list of all the possible models in the field of philosophy of mind (otherwise I would also have to include pictures with the perception being red and the outside being green, or half being green no matter where they are, or everything being red, or everything being green etc)
Yes, that’s fair. This was definitely a nitpicky request.