This response doesn't fill me with confidence. You aren't really engaging with any of the actual issues your position entails.
A proposition is not a prediction. A prediction is either an estimate of the value of some quantity ("the dumb ML meaning of prediction") or a proposition which describes a future scenario. We can trivially enumerate propositions that do not describe future scenarios, eg., 2 + 2 = 4.
Uncertainty is a property of belief attitudes towards propositions, it isn't a feature of their semantic content. A person doesnt mean anything different by "2 + 2 = 4" if they are 80 or 90% sure of it.
> We can't even physically prove that.
Irrelevant. Our minds are not constrained by physical possibility, necessarily so, as we know very little about what is physically possible. I can imagine abitary number of cases, arising out of logical manipulation of propositons, that are not physically possible. (Eg., "Superman can lift any building. The empire state building is so-and-so a kind of building. Imagine(Superman lifting the empire state building)").
The infinite variety of our imagination is a trivial consequence of non-probabilistic operations on propositions, it's incomprehensibly implausible as a consequence of merely probabilistic ones.
That nature seems to have endowed minds with discrete operations, that these are empirical in operation across very wide classes of reasoning, including imagination, that these seem trivial for nature to provide (etc.) render the notion that they don't exist highly highly implausible.
There is nothing lacking explanation here. The relevant mental processes we have to hand are fairly obvious and fairly easy to explain.
Its an obvious act of credulity to try and find some way to make the latest trinkets of the recent rich some sort of miracle. All of these
projects of "incredible abstraction" follow around these hype cycles, turning lead into gold: if x "is really" y, and y "is really" z, and ..., then x is amazin! This piles towers of every more general hollowed-out words on top of each other until the most trivial thing sounds like a wonder.
A proposition is not a prediction. A prediction is either an estimate of the value of some quantity ("the dumb ML meaning of prediction") or a proposition which describes a future scenario. We can trivially enumerate propositions that do not describe future scenarios, eg., 2 + 2 = 4.
Uncertainty is a property of belief attitudes towards propositions, it isn't a feature of their semantic content. A person doesnt mean anything different by "2 + 2 = 4" if they are 80 or 90% sure of it.
> We can't even physically prove that.
Irrelevant. Our minds are not constrained by physical possibility, necessarily so, as we know very little about what is physically possible. I can imagine abitary number of cases, arising out of logical manipulation of propositons, that are not physically possible. (Eg., "Superman can lift any building. The empire state building is so-and-so a kind of building. Imagine(Superman lifting the empire state building)").
The infinite variety of our imagination is a trivial consequence of non-probabilistic operations on propositions, it's incomprehensibly implausible as a consequence of merely probabilistic ones.
That nature seems to have endowed minds with discrete operations, that these are empirical in operation across very wide classes of reasoning, including imagination, that these seem trivial for nature to provide (etc.) render the notion that they don't exist highly highly implausible.
There is nothing lacking explanation here. The relevant mental processes we have to hand are fairly obvious and fairly easy to explain.
Its an obvious act of credulity to try and find some way to make the latest trinkets of the recent rich some sort of miracle. All of these projects of "incredible abstraction" follow around these hype cycles, turning lead into gold: if x "is really" y, and y "is really" z, and ..., then x is amazin! This piles towers of every more general hollowed-out words on top of each other until the most trivial thing sounds like a wonder.