Blank map doesn’t imply blank territory. Did you read what I write on this? There is consistent (as far as I can see) way to deal with subjective experiences.
Isn’t it possible (at least non-contradictory) that there could be a universe whose minimum description length is infinite? And even a brain within that universe with infinite minimum description length? If this universe contains intelligent beings having witty conversations and doing science and stuff, do we really want to just flat out deny that these beings are conscious (and/or deny that such a universe is metaphysically possible.)
There isn’t always a fact of the matter as to whether a being is conscious and if so, what it’s conscious of. For the former, note that the question of when a foetus starts to have experiences is obviously indeterminate. For the latter, consider Dennett’s distinction between ‘Orwellian’ and ‘Stalinesque’ revisions. Neither is there always a fact of the matter as to how many minds are present (consider a split brain patient). Don’t these considerations undermine the idea of using the Solomonoff prior? (If we don’t know (a) whether there are experiences here at all, (b) what experiences there are or even (c) whether this smaller object or this larger object counts as a ‘single mind’ then how on earth can we talk meaningfully about how the ‘thread’ of subjectivity is likely to continue?)
Well, they will need infinite processing power to effectively use their brains content. And infinite processing power is very strange thing. This situation lies outside of applicability area of my proposal.
My proposal nor discusses, nor uses emergence/existence of subjective experience. If something has subjective experiences and it has experience of having subjective experience, then this something can use Solomonoff prior to infer anticipations of future experiences.
Blank map doesn’t imply blank territory. Did you read what I write on this? There is consistent (as far as I can see) way to deal with subjective experiences.
Objections:
Isn’t it possible (at least non-contradictory) that there could be a universe whose minimum description length is infinite? And even a brain within that universe with infinite minimum description length? If this universe contains intelligent beings having witty conversations and doing science and stuff, do we really want to just flat out deny that these beings are conscious (and/or deny that such a universe is metaphysically possible.)
There isn’t always a fact of the matter as to whether a being is conscious and if so, what it’s conscious of. For the former, note that the question of when a foetus starts to have experiences is obviously indeterminate. For the latter, consider Dennett’s distinction between ‘Orwellian’ and ‘Stalinesque’ revisions. Neither is there always a fact of the matter as to how many minds are present (consider a split brain patient). Don’t these considerations undermine the idea of using the Solomonoff prior? (If we don’t know (a) whether there are experiences here at all, (b) what experiences there are or even (c) whether this smaller object or this larger object counts as a ‘single mind’ then how on earth can we talk meaningfully about how the ‘thread’ of subjectivity is likely to continue?)
Well, they will need infinite processing power to effectively use their brains content. And infinite processing power is very strange thing. This situation lies outside of applicability area of my proposal.
My proposal nor discusses, nor uses emergence/existence of subjective experience. If something has subjective experiences and it has experience of having subjective experience, then this something can use Solomonoff prior to infer anticipations of future experiences.