> Lets consider two "hard" questions - "why do we live in THIS > universe?" (1) and "why am I me?" (2). > > (1) . Why do we live in THIS universe? > > Here we got: > - string theory and anthropic reasoning present us with a landscape of > 10^(10^N) universes that we can choose from. > - we've got some strong constraints on the result of the choice. The > choice can be random (or defined by some probability distribution on > the set of all possible universes), but we should live in the universe > compatible with our existence. > > Conclusion: we can't answer 'hard' question 'Why physical laws are > described by string (M, F, whatever) theory, but we can at least ask > more 'soft' question - 'Why from the set of all possible universes > described by theory T the chosen one is this one". And this question > sounds scientific and it seems that it should be answered before we > can answer thr hard one. > > (2). Why am I me? > Here we got nothing (?): > - what is a "landscape" here, a set of all possible mes? All the > people? All the people that ever lived and will ever live? All the > animals? All the conscious entities? And here we stuck cause we don't > know excatly what entity is conscious and what is not. Or, maybe the > set contains only ONE element (only one 1st person exists ...) and > there is no choice at all? > - what are constraints? What machine can 'host' me (conscious entity) ? >
Sorry, I forgot the questions themselves: 1. Can we temporarily substitute the 'hard' question "why am I me?" by the more 'soft' one, like the question of choice in some 'level 3 tegmarkian multiverse' of all possible mes ? 2. Can we reduce "why am I me?" to the question of choice on the some set? 3. What is the 'hardest' question that is still scientific? In other words, that is the most rigorous reformulation of "why I am me?" that could be asked and maybe even answered by modern science in the nearest future? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
