I no longer think it makes sense to clam up when you can’t figure out how you originally came around to the view which you now hold
Either you can say “I came to this conclusion at some point, and I trust myself”, or you should abandon the belief.
You don’t need to know how or why your brain happened to contain the belief; you just need to know your own justification for believing it now. If you can’t sufficiently justify your belief to yourself (even through things like “My-memory-of-myself-from-a-few-minutes-ago thinks it’s likely” or “First-order intuition thinks it’s likely”), you should abandon it (unless you’re bad at this, which is probably not the case for most people who might try it).
From my perspective, I just had an original thought. If there’s any writing about something related, or if someone else has something to add or subtract, I would probably very much like to read it.
Either you can say “I came to this conclusion at some point, and I trust myself”, or you should abandon the belief.
You don’t need to know how or why your brain happened to contain the belief; you just need to know your own justification for believing it now. If you can’t sufficiently justify your belief to yourself (even through things like “My-memory-of-myself-from-a-few-minutes-ago thinks it’s likely” or “First-order intuition thinks it’s likely”), you should abandon it (unless you’re bad at this, which is probably not the case for most people who might try it).
From my perspective, I just had an original thought. If there’s any writing about something related, or if someone else has something to add or subtract, I would probably very much like to read it.