But then, I spend a lot of time wishing I was an ideal intelligence.
LOL. I know exactly what you mean.
In fact, I was thinking about the "built on superceded beliefs" thing. It often causes someone to look really silly when they find they learnt one thing, learnt something else that contradicted it, but never combined them, and then have to admit the problem. But maybe it is necessary; keeping a big table of all combinations of beliefs is a lot of work...
And in fact, beliefs probably need percentages. Anything I learnt as a child is probably normalised to under 70% certainty because it was filtered through my then understanding and one time in three I misunderstood it. Something I got from a book needs to be reexamined to see if the book is still current.
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In fact, I was thinking about the "built on superceded beliefs" thing. It often causes someone to look really silly when they find they learnt one thing, learnt something else that contradicted it, but never combined them, and then have to admit the problem. But maybe it is necessary; keeping a big table of all combinations of beliefs is a lot of work...
And in fact, beliefs probably need percentages. Anything I learnt as a child is probably normalised to under 70% certainty because it was filtered through my then understanding and one time in three I misunderstood it. Something I got from a book needs to be reexamined to see if the book is still current.