>>1132776>are you really prepared to say that there is no correlation between e.g. having a brain and having thoughts?There's no evidence of such. There's evidence other people *act like* having a brain gives them thoughts, but that evidence equally supports all three of these hypotheses:
- other people have thoughts just like me
- other people act like they have thoughts but they don't
- other people have thoughts just like me, but they have no control over their actions and they feel pain literally all the time but they can't express it because they have no control over their actions
That one piece of evidence supports all three of these equally, based on this evidence they're all just as likely.
>The first one is more likely because I think everyone should be like meThere's no evidence for this though. "I expect everyone is like me" is just your opinion.
(I personally believe the first one, but not for any rational reason. I'll happily admit that this is the consequences fallacy.
Unrelatedly, the social contract is predicated on everybody behaving as if the first one is true, and society seems to work, so if someone wanted a good outcome in their life, it seems reasonable that they should act as if it were.)
