In the AIXI/instrumentalist model, “sensory input” doesn’t seem to reduce to anything else, and the self is “taken for granted”. Doesn’t that bother you?
it does. But I prefer this over futile arguments over QM interpretations, modal realism and whatever Tegmark writes. Possibly this is a false dichotomy, and I’d be happy to subscribe to an idea of external reality which did not lead to such debates, but I am yet to come across one.
it does. But I prefer this over futile arguments over QM interpretations, modal realism and whatever Tegmark writes. Possibly this is a false dichotomy, and I’d be happy to subscribe to an idea of external reality which did not lead to such debates, but I am yet to come across one.