Imagine you have a button and if you press it, it will run through every possible state of a human brain. (One post estimates a brain may have about 2 to the sextillion different states. I mean the union of all brains so throw in some more orders of magnitude if you think there are a lot of differences in brain anatomy.) Each state would be experienced for one instant (which I could try to define and would be less than the number of states but let’s handwave for now; as long as you accept that a human mind can be represented by a computer imagine the specs of the components and all the combinations of memory bits and one “stream of consciousness” quantum).
If you could make a change would you prioritize:
Pruning the instances to reduce negative experiences
Being able to press the button lots of times
Making the experiences more real (For example an experience could be “one instant of reminiscing over my memories of building a Dyson Sphere” but nothing like that ever happened. One way to make it more real would be to create the set of all the necessary universe starting conditions to be able to create the set of all unique experiences; each universe will create duplicate experiences among its various inhabitants but it will contain at least the one unique experience it is checking off, which would include the person reminiscing over building a Dyson Sphere and they actually did build it. Or at least the ones that can be generated in this fashion.)
This is horrible, stop the train I want to get off.
(I’d probably go with 4 but curious if people have different opinions.)
Imagine you have a button and if you press it, it will run through every possible state of a human brain. (One post estimates a brain may have about 2 to the sextillion different states. I mean the union of all brains so throw in some more orders of magnitude if you think there are a lot of differences in brain anatomy.) Each state would be experienced for one instant (which I could try to define and would be less than the number of states but let’s handwave for now; as long as you accept that a human mind can be represented by a computer imagine the specs of the components and all the combinations of memory bits and one “stream of consciousness” quantum).
If you could make a change would you prioritize:
Pruning the instances to reduce negative experiences
Being able to press the button lots of times
Making the experiences more real (For example an experience could be “one instant of reminiscing over my memories of building a Dyson Sphere” but nothing like that ever happened. One way to make it more real would be to create the set of all the necessary universe starting conditions to be able to create the set of all unique experiences; each universe will create duplicate experiences among its various inhabitants but it will contain at least the one unique experience it is checking off, which would include the person reminiscing over building a Dyson Sphere and they actually did build it. Or at least the ones that can be generated in this fashion.)
This is horrible, stop the train I want to get off.
(I’d probably go with 4 but curious if people have different opinions.)
This thought experiment is so far outside any experience-able reality that no answer is likely to make any sense.