A thing that that philosophical types like to do that I dislike is making claims about about what it is to exist in general, claims that presumably would apply to all minds or ‘subjects’, when in fact those claims concern at most only the particular Homo Sapiens condition, and are based only on the experiences of one particular Homo Sapiens.
My claim is mainly based on physics of one sort of another. For one the second law of thermodynamics. All systems will eventually degrade to whatever is most stable. Neutrons, IIRC. And unless a set of neutrons in thermodynamic equilibria happen to be your idea of perfection, or your idea of perfection is impermanent, then my statement stands.
Another one is acting, a quantum system decoheres or splits the universe into two possible worlds. The agent doesn’t know which of the possible worlds it is in (unless it happens to have a particle in super position with the decohering system), so has to split the difference and act as if it could be in either. As such it is imperfect.
My claim is mainly based on physics of one sort of another. For one the second law of thermodynamics. All systems will eventually degrade to whatever is most stable. Neutrons, IIRC. And unless a set of neutrons in thermodynamic equilibria happen to be your idea of perfection, or your idea of perfection is impermanent, then my statement stands.
Another one is acting, a quantum system decoheres or splits the universe into two possible worlds. The agent doesn’t know which of the possible worlds it is in (unless it happens to have a particle in super position with the decohering system), so has to split the difference and act as if it could be in either. As such it is imperfect.