Irrationality game: Every thing which exists has subjective experience (80%). This includes things such as animals, plants, rocks, ideas, mathematics, the universe and any sub component of an aforementioned system.
By “any subcomponent,” do you mean that the powerset of the universe is composed of conscious entities, even when light speed and expansion preclude causal interaction within the conscious entity? Because, if the universe is indeed spatially infinite, that means that the set of conscious entities is the infinity of the continuum; and I’m really confused by what that does to anthropic reasoning.
By “any subcomponent,” do you mean that the powerset of the universe is composed of conscious entities, even when light speed and expansion preclude causal interaction within the conscious entity?
If you replace consciousness with subjective experience I believe your statement is correct. Also once you have one infinity you can take power sets again and again.
I’m really confused by what that does to anthropic reasoning
As far as I understand it breaks anthropic reasoning because now your event space is to big to be able to define a probability measure. For the time being I have concluded that anthropic reasoning doesn’t work because of a very similar argument though I will revise my argument once I have learned the relevant math.
Defining subjective experience is hard for the same reason that defining red is hard, since they are direct experiences. However in this case I can’t get around this by pointing at examples. So the only thing I can do is offer an alternative phrasing which suffers from the same problem:
Besides the issue of “subjective experience” that has already been brought up, there’s also the question of what “thing” and “exists” mean. Are abstract concepts “things”? Do virtual particles “exist”? By including ideas, you seem to be saying “yes” to the first question. So do subjective experiences have subjective experiences themselves?
Also, it’s “an aforementioned”. That’s especially important when speaking.
Besides the issue of “subjective experience” that has already been brought up, there’s also the question of what “thing” and “exists” mean.
I believe some form of MUH is correct so when I say exist I mean the same thing as in mathematics (in the sense of quantifying over various things). So by a thing I mean anything for which it is (at least in principle) possible to write down a mathematically precise definition.
Presumably abstract ideas and virtual particles fall under this category though in neither case am I sure because I don’t know what you mean by abstract idea/I don’t know enough physics. I not sure whether it possible to give a definition for subjective experience so I don’t know whether subjective experiences have subjective experiences.
Also, it’s “an aforementioned”. That’s especially important when speaking.
Irrationality game: Every thing which exists has subjective experience (80%). This includes things such as animals, plants, rocks, ideas, mathematics, the universe and any sub component of an aforementioned system.
By “any subcomponent,” do you mean that the powerset of the universe is composed of conscious entities, even when light speed and expansion preclude causal interaction within the conscious entity? Because, if the universe is indeed spatially infinite, that means that the set of conscious entities is the infinity of the continuum; and I’m really confused by what that does to anthropic reasoning.
If you replace consciousness with subjective experience I believe your statement is correct. Also once you have one infinity you can take power sets again and again.
As far as I understand it breaks anthropic reasoning because now your event space is to big to be able to define a probability measure. For the time being I have concluded that anthropic reasoning doesn’t work because of a very similar argument though I will revise my argument once I have learned the relevant math.
How would one define subjective experience for rocks and atoms?
Defining subjective experience is hard for the same reason that defining red is hard, since they are direct experiences. However in this case I can’t get around this by pointing at examples. So the only thing I can do is offer an alternative phrasing which suffers from the same problem:
If you accept that our experiences are what an algorithm feels like from on the inside then I am saying that everything feels like something from the inside.
Besides the issue of “subjective experience” that has already been brought up, there’s also the question of what “thing” and “exists” mean. Are abstract concepts “things”? Do virtual particles “exist”? By including ideas, you seem to be saying “yes” to the first question. So do subjective experiences have subjective experiences themselves?
Also, it’s “an aforementioned”. That’s especially important when speaking.
I believe some form of MUH is correct so when I say exist I mean the same thing as in mathematics (in the sense of quantifying over various things). So by a thing I mean anything for which it is (at least in principle) possible to write down a mathematically precise definition.
Presumably abstract ideas and virtual particles fall under this category though in neither case am I sure because I don’t know what you mean by abstract idea/I don’t know enough physics. I not sure whether it possible to give a definition for subjective experience so I don’t know whether subjective experiences have subjective experiences.
Substituted an a for an an.