What hypothesis would you be “testing”? What I’m proposing is an idealized version of a sampling procedure that could be used to run tests, namely, sampling mind-like things according to their description complexity.
I mean, I’m saying get minds with many different complexities, figure out a way to communicate with them, and ask them about their experience.
That would help to figure out if complexity is indeed correlated with observer moments.
But how you test this feels different from the question of whether or not it’s true.
I think we’re talking about different things. I’m talking about how you would locate minds in an arbitrary computational structure(and how to count them), you’re talking about determining what’s valuable about a mind once we’ve found it.
I mean, I’m saying get minds with many different complexities, figure out a way to communicate with them, and ask them about their experience.
That would help to figure out if complexity is indeed correlated with observer moments.
But how you test this feels different from the question of whether or not it’s true.
I think we’re talking about different things. I’m talking about how you would locate minds in an arbitrary computational structure(and how to count them), you’re talking about determining what’s valuable about a mind once we’ve found it.