You interpreted “immobilize” as “inability to perform a Bayesian update”? I think that is unlikely given that he says “you will be incapable of going somewhere without your cache of notes” which seems to clearly imply a much more (though not completely) literal, physical meaning of immobilization.
There is also a “structural integrity″ to your old thoughts that will resist change. You may actively not-think certain things, because it would demand a lot of note keeping work.
Maybe I just interpreted that as the worst part of it, and somewhat of a metaphor for having significant barriers to reorganizing or modifying your brain’s contents.
I parsed it as ‘you won’t be able to update.’
You interpreted “immobilize” as “inability to perform a Bayesian update”? I think that is unlikely given that he says “you will be incapable of going somewhere without your cache of notes” which seems to clearly imply a much more (though not completely) literal, physical meaning of immobilization.
There’s also the bit that says
If you’ll excuse the rhetoric: Wow… I don’t even know what to say.
Maybe I just interpreted that as the worst part of it, and somewhat of a metaphor for having significant barriers to reorganizing or modifying your brain’s contents.