I find that if I keep recursing deep enough, after a while I get to a point where I try to work out why I believe that I can believe that logic works. At which point I bounce off a wall, seeing as I’m trying to logically come up with a reason for it.
Solipsism is similar—how do you know that you’re not a brain in a vat? Or in general Descartes’ demon. From my (admissively most likely confused) understanding, this would be another example of self reference, albeit in a roundabout way.
I think that the philosophical questions you’re describing actually evaporate and turn out to be meaningless once you think enough about them, because they have a very anthropic flavour.
I don’t think that’s exactly true. But why do you think that follows from what I wrote?
I find that if I keep recursing deep enough, after a while I get to a point where I try to work out why I believe that I can believe that logic works. At which point I bounce off a wall, seeing as I’m trying to logically come up with a reason for it.
Solipsism is similar—how do you know that you’re not a brain in a vat? Or in general Descartes’ demon. From my (admissively most likely confused) understanding, this would be another example of self reference, albeit in a roundabout way.
I think that the philosophical questions you’re describing actually evaporate and turn out to be meaningless once you think enough about them, because they have a very anthropic flavour.