reevaluate how you’re defining all the terms that you’re using
Always a good idea. As for why I’m pointing to EV: epistemic justification and expected value both entail scoring rules for ways to adopt beliefs. Combining both into the same model makes it easier to discuss epistemic justification in situations with reasoners with arbitrary utility functions and states of awareness.
Knowledge as mutual information between two models induced by some unspecified causal pathway allows me to talk about knowledge in situations where beliefs could follow from arbitrary causal pathways. I would exclude from my definition of knowledge false beliefs instilled by an agent which still produce the correct predictions, and I’d ensure my definition includes mutual information induced by a genuine divine revelation. (which is to say, I reject epistemic justification as a dependency)
Removing the criterion of being a belief seems to redraw the boundary around a lot of simple systems, but I don’t necessarily see a problem with that. ‘True’ follows from mutual information.
you’re not defining “subjective” according to the subject | object dichotomy
Seems so. I’m happy to instead avoid making claims about knowledge related to the subject-object dichotomy, as none of the reasoning I’d endorse here conditions on consciousness.
Always a good idea. As for why I’m pointing to EV: epistemic justification and expected value both entail scoring rules for ways to adopt beliefs. Combining both into the same model makes it easier to discuss epistemic justification in situations with reasoners with arbitrary utility functions and states of awareness.
Knowledge as mutual information between two models induced by some unspecified causal pathway allows me to talk about knowledge in situations where beliefs could follow from arbitrary causal pathways. I would exclude from my definition of knowledge false beliefs instilled by an agent which still produce the correct predictions, and I’d ensure my definition includes mutual information induced by a genuine divine revelation. (which is to say, I reject epistemic justification as a dependency)
Removing the criterion of being a belief seems to redraw the boundary around a lot of simple systems, but I don’t necessarily see a problem with that. ‘True’ follows from mutual information.
Seems so. I’m happy to instead avoid making claims about knowledge related to the subject-object dichotomy, as none of the reasoning I’d endorse here conditions on consciousness.