I’ll preface this with: what I’m saying is low confidence—I’m not very educated on the topics in question (reality fluid, consciousness, quantum mechanics, etc).
Nevertheless, I don’t see how the prison example is applicable. In the prison scenario there’s an external truth (which prisoner was picked) that exists independent of memory/consciousness. The memory wipe just makes the prisoner uncertain about this external truth.
But this post is talking about a scenario where your memories/consciousness are the only thing that determines which universes count as ‘you’.
There is no external truth about which universe you’re really in—your consciousness itself defines (encompasses?) which universes contain you. So, when your memories become more coarse, you’re not just becoming uncertain about which universe you’re in—you’re changing which universes count as containing you, since your consciousness is the only arbiter of this.
I’ll preface this with: what I’m saying is low confidence—I’m not very educated on the topics in question (reality fluid, consciousness, quantum mechanics, etc).
Nevertheless, I don’t see how the prison example is applicable. In the prison scenario there’s an external truth (which prisoner was picked) that exists independent of memory/consciousness. The memory wipe just makes the prisoner uncertain about this external truth.
But this post is talking about a scenario where your memories/consciousness are the only thing that determines which universes count as ‘you’.
There is no external truth about which universe you’re really in—your consciousness itself defines (encompasses?) which universes contain you. So, when your memories become more coarse, you’re not just becoming uncertain about which universe you’re in—you’re changing which universes count as containing you, since your consciousness is the only arbiter of this.