I provided reasons why I believe that Naive Functionalism is implausible in an earlier comment. I’ll admit that inconsistency is too strong of a word. My point is just that you need an independent reason to bite the bullet other than simplicity. Like simplicity combined with reasons why the bullets sound worse than they actually are.
Ah, I had taken you to be asserting possibilities and a desire to keep those possibilities open rather than held views and a desire for theories to conform to those views.
Maybe something about my view which I should emphasize is that since it doesn’t nail down any particular notion of counterfactual dependence, it doesn’t actually directly bite bullets on specific examples. In a given case where it may seem initially like you want counterfactual dependence but you don’t want anthropic instances to live, you’re free to either change views on one or the other. It could be that a big chunk of our differing intuitions lies in this. I suspect you’ve been thinking of me as wanting to open up the set of anthropic instances much wider than you would want. But, my view is equally amenable to narrowing down the scope of counterfactual dependence, instead. I suspect I’m much more open to narrowing down counterfactual dependence than you might think.
I suspect you’ve been thinking of me as wanting to open up the set of anthropic instances much wider than you would want. But, my view is equally amenable to narrowing down the scope of counterfactual dependence, instead. I suspect I’m much more open to narrowing down counterfactual dependence than you might think.
Oh, I completely missed this. That said, I would be highly surprised if these notions were to coincide since they seem like different types. Something for me to think about.
Ah, I had taken you to be asserting possibilities and a desire to keep those possibilities open rather than held views and a desire for theories to conform to those views.
Maybe something about my view which I should emphasize is that since it doesn’t nail down any particular notion of counterfactual dependence, it doesn’t actually directly bite bullets on specific examples. In a given case where it may seem initially like you want counterfactual dependence but you don’t want anthropic instances to live, you’re free to either change views on one or the other. It could be that a big chunk of our differing intuitions lies in this. I suspect you’ve been thinking of me as wanting to open up the set of anthropic instances much wider than you would want. But, my view is equally amenable to narrowing down the scope of counterfactual dependence, instead. I suspect I’m much more open to narrowing down counterfactual dependence than you might think.
Oh, I completely missed this. That said, I would be highly surprised if these notions were to coincide since they seem like different types. Something for me to think about.