In your view, don’t all beliefs pay rent in some anticipated experience, no matter how bad that rent is?
No, for an example of beliefs that don’t pay rent in any anticipated experience, see the first 3 paragraphs of this article:
Thus begins the ancient parable:
If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? One says, “Yes it does, for it makes vibrations in the air.” Another says, “No it does not, for there is no auditory processing in any brain.”
Suppose that, after the tree falls, the two walk into the forest together. Will one expect to see the tree fallen to the right, and the other expect to see the tree fallen to the left? Suppose that before the tree falls, the two leave a sound recorder next to the tree. Would one, playing back the recorder, expect to hear something different from the other? Suppose they attach an electroencephalograph to any brain in the world; would one expect to see a different trace than the other? Though the two argue, one saying “No,” and the other saying “Yes,” they do not anticipate any different experiences. The two think they have different models of the world, but they have no difference with respect to what they expect will happen to them.
Both beliefs lead them to anticipate the same experience.
EDIT: In other words, two people might think they have different beliefs, but when it comes to anticipated experiences, they have similar enough beliefs about the properties of sound waves and the properties of falling trees and recorders and etc etc that they anticipate the same experience.
Although I have a bone to pick with the whole “belief in belief” business, right now I’ll concede that people actually do carry beliefs around that don’t lead to anticipated experiences. Wulky Wilkinsen being a “post-utopian” (as interpreted from my current state of knowing 0 about Wulky Wilkinsen and post-utopians) is a belief that doesn’t pay any rent at all, not even a paper that says “moneeez.”
No, for an example of beliefs that don’t pay rent in any anticipated experience, see the first 3 paragraphs of this article:
Two people have semantically different beliefs.
Both beliefs lead them to anticipate the same experience.
EDIT: In other words, two people might think they have different beliefs, but when it comes to anticipated experiences, they have similar enough beliefs about the properties of sound waves and the properties of falling trees and recorders and etc etc that they anticipate the same experience.
Taboo “semantically”.
See also the example of The Dragon in the Garage, as discussed in the followup article.
Taboo’ed. See edit.
Although I have a bone to pick with the whole “belief in belief” business, right now I’ll concede that people actually do carry beliefs around that don’t lead to anticipated experiences. Wulky Wilkinsen being a “post-utopian” (as interpreted from my current state of knowing 0 about Wulky Wilkinsen and post-utopians) is a belief that doesn’t pay any rent at all, not even a paper that says “moneeez.”