Great read and interesting take on alternative considerations. A discussion about fundamental attribution error would be interesting here—or a closely related concept. Not applicable to existence vs. non-existence, but I’d imagine we have poor intuitions at knowing the effect of changes to perturbations in individual human characteristics, and I wonder if something similar is at play when we estimate the effect of our actions, personal choices or character. In a stochastic enough system with a large number of players, perhaps single changes become absorbed into the background chaos.
Great read and interesting take on alternative considerations. A discussion about fundamental attribution error would be interesting here—or a closely related concept. Not applicable to existence vs. non-existence, but I’d imagine we have poor intuitions at knowing the effect of changes to perturbations in individual human characteristics, and I wonder if something similar is at play when we estimate the effect of our actions, personal choices or character. In a stochastic enough system with a large number of players, perhaps single changes become absorbed into the background chaos.