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> We have as much choice in moving through the "Levels" as we do in 
> choosing our degree of intelligence or our state of self-awareness. 
That is a plausible equivalence relation.
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Great!  I *do* have choices about my degree of intelligence and my state 
of self-awareness.  That doesn't mean I make the maximizing choices 100% 
of the time.  If I have a first-order approximate understanding of what 
Brodie is saying, then the springboard for level-3 IS that one has 
choices about the above.  Deny these assumptions, and one finds level-3 
inconceivable.
I am getting the impression that you find these choices implausible, with 
corresponding consequences.  There's no problem with that.
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