In fairness there are potential issues here with signalling and culture. Although people might profess to believe X, in reality X just might be a more common type of cached knowledge, or X might be something that they say because they think it is socially useful, or as a permutation of those two they might have conditioned themselves to believe in X. Or, perhaps they interpret the meaning of “X” differently than others do, but they really mean the same thing underneath.
I think there should be a distinction between types of intuitions, or at least two different poles on a broad spectrum. I think we should consider the extreme of one pole to be truly internalized knowledge that’s an extremely core part of that persons personality, and the other extreme to be an extremely shallow belief that’s produced by lazy introspection or by no introspection at all, just the automatic repetition of cultural means.
I think that the first type of intuition would be extremely similar. I also think that the first type of intuition is what really matters and probably what controls our actions. I think the second type of intuition probably effects behavior to a limited degree, but I don’t think that it would be all that significant. I think these things because humans cooperate with each other so easily, and because there are a great many concepts that translate easily across cultures. Even with some the strangest sounding foreign philosophies that I’ve encountered, I emphasize with a little, and I think that’s because those philosophies have origins common to all people.
The fact that all humans are extremely biologically similar is also a big factor in my thought process.
In fairness there are potential issues here with signalling and culture. Although people might profess to believe X, in reality X just might be a more common type of cached knowledge, or X might be something that they say because they think it is socially useful, or as a permutation of those two they might have conditioned themselves to believe in X. Or, perhaps they interpret the meaning of “X” differently than others do, but they really mean the same thing underneath.
I think there should be a distinction between types of intuitions, or at least two different poles on a broad spectrum. I think we should consider the extreme of one pole to be truly internalized knowledge that’s an extremely core part of that persons personality, and the other extreme to be an extremely shallow belief that’s produced by lazy introspection or by no introspection at all, just the automatic repetition of cultural means.
I think that the first type of intuition would be extremely similar. I also think that the first type of intuition is what really matters and probably what controls our actions. I think the second type of intuition probably effects behavior to a limited degree, but I don’t think that it would be all that significant. I think these things because humans cooperate with each other so easily, and because there are a great many concepts that translate easily across cultures. Even with some the strangest sounding foreign philosophies that I’ve encountered, I emphasize with a little, and I think that’s because those philosophies have origins common to all people.
The fact that all humans are extremely biologically similar is also a big factor in my thought process.