The original comment was typed out hastily and imprecisely worded. What I mean by a higher-order property is a property that emerges from the fundamental level, rather than the fundamental laws themselves. Of course, if you say that laws that result in radical disharmony are intrinsically less probable, not because they make agents have …
The original comment was typed out hastily and imprecisely worded. What I mean by a higher-order property is a property that emerges from the fundamental level, rather than the fundamental laws themselves. Of course, if you say that laws that result in radical disharmony are intrinsically less probable, not because they make agents have disharmony but instead because of the laws themselves, that seems plausible enough, and is my preferred response to psychophysical harmony. Though I don't think that that provides an account of why other skeptical scenarios are improbable--suppose that there are some simple mathematical equations that generate mostly Boltzmann brains. It seems utterly bizarre to think that the fact that this makes most agents deceived could affect the intrinsic likelihood of the laws.
The original comment was typed out hastily and imprecisely worded. What I mean by a higher-order property is a property that emerges from the fundamental level, rather than the fundamental laws themselves. Of course, if you say that laws that result in radical disharmony are intrinsically less probable, not because they make agents have disharmony but instead because of the laws themselves, that seems plausible enough, and is my preferred response to psychophysical harmony. Though I don't think that that provides an account of why other skeptical scenarios are improbable--suppose that there are some simple mathematical equations that generate mostly Boltzmann brains. It seems utterly bizarre to think that the fact that this makes most agents deceived could affect the intrinsic likelihood of the laws.