I consider myself a rational realist, but I don’t believe some of the things you attribute to rational realism (particularly concerning morality) and particularly concerning consciousness. I don’t think there’s a true decision theory or true morality, but I do think that you could find systems of reasoning that are provably optimal within certain formal models.
There is no sense in which our formal models are true, but as long as they have high predictive power the models would be useful, and that I think is all that matters.
I consider myself a rational realist, but I don’t believe some of the things you attribute to rational realism (particularly concerning morality) and particularly concerning consciousness. I don’t think there’s a true decision theory or true morality, but I do think that you could find systems of reasoning that are provably optimal within certain formal models.
There is no sense in which our formal models are true, but as long as they have high predictive power the models would be useful, and that I think is all that matters.