A choice is a result of deliberative procedure, and since you are specifically stating that … explicit reasoning procedures were not the cause, … [it] doesn’t seem to qualify as result of a choice.
Most people, when choosing a number between 1 and 10, do not utilize “explicit reasoning procedures”, and hence, according to VN, are not making a choice.
It is no big deal; I understand that VN has decided not to insist upon deliberation; but that provides the background to my masochistic impulse.
So your brain has a planning algorithm—not a deliberate algorithm that you learned in school, but an instinctive planning algorithm. For all the obvious reasons, this algorithm keeps track of which states have known paths from the start point. I’ve termed this label “reachable”, but the way the algorithm feels from inside, is that it just feels like you can do it. Like you could go there any time you wanted.
At no point does EY propose “deliberative procedure”. I think Cyan was simply assuming that the definitions matched—I know I did.
It would exclude that if someone happened to believe Vladimir_Nesov’s dictum that
Most people, when choosing a number between 1 and 10, do not utilize “explicit reasoning procedures”, and hence, according to VN, are not making a choice.
It is no big deal; I understand that VN has decided not to insist upon deliberation; but that provides the background to my masochistic impulse.
Oh! That’s VN’s wording, not EY’s—in Cyan’s link:
At no point does EY propose “deliberative procedure”. I think Cyan was simply assuming that the definitions matched—I know I did.
The whole discussion seems to revolve around semantics. What is the actual problem?