2026-10-22 20:14 UTC
OK, that’s great. So if I understand you correctly, it seems like you’re admitting that not only do you have no empirical evidence for your position, you don’t believe you’ll ever be able to test it. This seems like a weak position to hold, almost akin to a faith-based religious position.
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@Epp@lemmus.org 2026-10-22 20:27
As I’ve said, I think the existence of instinctual behavior qualifies as empirical evidence for my theory. I don’t believe it on a whim. Another example is twins, separated at birth, yet growing up to have nearly identical preferences and lives. Making choices reflecting the deterministic coding of their internal decision structure, which they largely share outside of nominal differences resulting from environment. That is rather strong evidence, I feel.