I might have misunderstood your comment, but it sounds like you’re saying that Solomonoff induction isn’t naturalized/embedded, and that this is a problem (sort of like in this post). If so, I’m fine with that, and the point of my question was more like, “given this flawed-but-interesting model (Solomonoff induction), what does it say about this question that I’m interested in (consciousness)?”
We can make Solomonoff induction believe all sorts of screwy things about consciousness. Take a few trillion identical computers running similar computations. Put something really special and unique next to one of the cases, say a micro black hole. Run solomonoff induction on all the computers, each with different input. Each inductor simulates the universe and has to know its own position in order to predict its input. The one next to the black hole can most easily locate itself as the one next to the black hole, if the black hole is moved, it will believe its consciousness resides in “the computer next to the black hole” and predict accordingly.
I might have misunderstood your comment, but it sounds like you’re saying that Solomonoff induction isn’t naturalized/embedded, and that this is a problem (sort of like in this post). If so, I’m fine with that, and the point of my question was more like, “given this flawed-but-interesting model (Solomonoff induction), what does it say about this question that I’m interested in (consciousness)?”
We can make Solomonoff induction believe all sorts of screwy things about consciousness. Take a few trillion identical computers running similar computations. Put something really special and unique next to one of the cases, say a micro black hole. Run solomonoff induction on all the computers, each with different input. Each inductor simulates the universe and has to know its own position in order to predict its input. The one next to the black hole can most easily locate itself as the one next to the black hole, if the black hole is moved, it will believe its consciousness resides in “the computer next to the black hole” and predict accordingly.