I do believe we are onto something, only from alternate paths. Education uses Campbell's law, social sciences... I seek to apply it to philosophy - to find the universal in these truths... I think of CS Pierce - the first rule of logic is doubt, Or Daniel Kahneman advances in psychology via economics... That we are irrational beings yes, but also the greatest forecasters are those among us: whom doubt their own assumptions most...
Listening to Temple Grandin's latest book today, she mentioned we are 'evaluators', but did not see the cognate to Nietzsche's 'man is the evaluator' Shatzen - trust but doubt, Jung's Synchronicity with his warning how easy it can be to sink to 'want rather than wonder'.. Sometimes we must leave reason behind to explore the sense and nonsense... Possibility is potential beyond our perception... Jung considered it induction from the intuition, but what defines our attachment?.. We must be curious rather than judgmental, and that is stolen for a modern comedy, just as 'fake it till you make it' is from a self help author trained in philosophy... We are winning or learning. Trauma being the result of a missed lesson...
I hope I explain this synergy I see - i always suggest those seeking for understanding of our consciousness to look into Nagarjuna and Vasubhandu - Yogacara or CittaMatra(mind matrix) is a millennia old tradition that has sought to understand the nature of the self - the phenomenology of the same - ( the answer is they define the self as a construct(Upacara) that which is close at hand(useful) but it not real - we attach to our 'citta'(consciousness - manas being mind) moment to moment - we are our experience but it does not need define us.... Alayavijnana as storehouse of the self if you want the string to pull... The goal is a perfected nature - amalavijnana... Only honourable to be better than our previous self - and therefore that will be a mystery until we succeed in embodying that ....
I apologize for my particular style - I was convinced as a child I had dyslexia so that meant I could not learn to read and understand as others - - but that was not so true. I learn and think different not an impairment - but an atypical style (as is the reality for all imo)...
In the last few years I was forced to learn to read medical studies to heal an auto inflammatory condition... As a result I realized I was able to learn, read, and most importantly - integrate knowledge into wisdom, and build upon the previous version of being... Nothing weird - just we are the most plastic being in nature - They now see our computer mind as our differentiation from an animal - I argue it is our potential - our placebo - our ability to achieve more than we ever give ourselves credit for - the original Ubermench - similar to a moon shot goal that goes all the way back to one of the oldest books we know - Great accomplishment in the Chinese book of Change is a hand attempting to grasp the moon.
*Hidden variables in everything. In your conclusion I have personal insight and an anecdote. I suggest you look at Indian philosophy again: Catuskoti(what was considered separate but we seem to understand otherwise now: Tetralemma) No matter our assumption - we must remain skeptical that the answer may be a, or b, or a and b or none of the above: we may not understand the question or are unable to perceive the answer(wave function as example). For me as a young lad - Temple Grandin speaking on certain maths being hard for a visual autodidact to learn... It did show me how even within a seemingly captured environment: it is always 'variable' with us involved. I was in the chess club as a young lad, grade school. I was in it because I liked Dungeons and Dragons and my Dungeon Master was a Chess wizard. I was a bit of a pale horse. I knew none of the conventions, nor the rules or the moves. That meant I did not react or act to any defined understanding - I played my own version of chess - not breaking the rules - but since my opponents assumed they had the entire game defined - they never assumed that there may be other ways to play within the rules but outside the culture and expectations.
This is unfortunately caused by how you've defined the "state" of the problem. This is not an issue of RL methods, rather an artefact of how you've applied them.
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