Just read up on the Dust Theory, and I think you can take it a notch further: no need for a vast universe, a rock is sufficient to represent any mind since there exists some mapping between the interactions of its constituent atoms to the brain activity of anyone. In fact, why not discard physical reality entirely and rest in the thought of everything existing in abstract math space?
does it make any sense to say ‘I am in _this_ one’? You’re in all of them, so long as those contexts can be said to ‘exist’. And what is stopping them from ‘existing’?
Well, why not jump from a bridge for fun then? You will continue to exist no matter what you do. Not saying that you won’t, but it seems once one gets to this point anthropics stops having any implications for actions in the real world and is forever relegated to the realm of abstract philosophical thought experiments.
Why not both?
My thought was that Boltzmann was proposed as a counter-argument to the idea of the Big Bang as the result of quantum fluctuations of an eternal universe. Since Boltzmann brains are much less massive than the whole observable universe, it is vastly more likely that the observer is just a random-fluctuation-generated Boltzmann brain hallucinating its observations than an observer (simulated or not) in an actual Big-Bang universe.
In fact, why not discard physical reality entirely and rest in the thought of everything existing in abstract math space?
Well, yes, that’s kind of the implication here. The minimum reality required to contain everything is, basically, nothing. Any more is entirely superfluous and reducible back to that bedrock.
Well, why not jump from a bridge for fun then? You will continue to exist no matter what you do.
You’re talking about quantum immortality/suicide, and it’s another corollary. Whether you find it ridiculous or not, I find the idea of an arbitrary ‘physical’ reality far more absurd.
Quantum immortality can be easily adapted to the Tegmark multiverse idea. Turchin wrote an article naming the idea ‘Multiverse immortality’. His formulation is that : for every sequence with n observer movements, there shall be an observe moment n+1.
Just read up on the Dust Theory, and I think you can take it a notch further: no need for a vast universe, a rock is sufficient to represent any mind since there exists some mapping between the interactions of its constituent atoms to the brain activity of anyone. In fact, why not discard physical reality entirely and rest in the thought of everything existing in abstract math space?
Well, why not jump from a bridge for fun then? You will continue to exist no matter what you do. Not saying that you won’t, but it seems once one gets to this point anthropics stops having any implications for actions in the real world and is forever relegated to the realm of abstract philosophical thought experiments.
My thought was that Boltzmann was proposed as a counter-argument to the idea of the Big Bang as the result of quantum fluctuations of an eternal universe. Since Boltzmann brains are much less massive than the whole observable universe, it is vastly more likely that the observer is just a random-fluctuation-generated Boltzmann brain hallucinating its observations than an observer (simulated or not) in an actual Big-Bang universe.
Well, yes, that’s kind of the implication here. The minimum reality required to contain everything is, basically, nothing. Any more is entirely superfluous and reducible back to that bedrock.
You’re talking about quantum immortality/suicide, and it’s another corollary. Whether you find it ridiculous or not, I find the idea of an arbitrary ‘physical’ reality far more absurd.
Quantum immortality can be easily adapted to the Tegmark multiverse idea. Turchin wrote an article naming the idea ‘Multiverse immortality’. His formulation is that : for every sequence with n observer movements, there shall be an observe moment n+1.