On 9 January 2014 11:40, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/7/2014 10:36 PM, LizR wrote: > >> Max's main lacuna is the nature of consciousness, which he describes as >> "what data feels like when it's being processed" - hardly a detailed >> theory. He starts his Mathematical Universe Hypothesis from the opposite >> pole to Bruno, so to speak. I wonder if it's possible for a particular >> mathemathical object to drop out of comp - after all, we do appear to live >> in a universe with a specific set of laws of physics. Are these the only >> ones that could be generated by comp (or generated by the existence of >> conscious beings in Platonia) ? Maybe one needs to somehow intersect comp >> with the MUH to get the full story! >> > > I think to be conscious you need memory and a sense of time passage > (although Bruno disputes this when he comes back from a salvia trip). To > escape solipism there must be objects your perceive, some of which act like > you, and on which you can act (c.f. Dr Johnson). That implies that there > must be a quasi-classical world in order to support consciousness (at least > human-like consciousness). > > Those all seem like reasonable criteria. I imagine they could be fulfilled by a variety of physical laws (e.g. it probably wouldn't make a huge difference to the existence of human beings if light travelled 10% faster or slower). So presumably comp covers all possible physical laws which create conscious beings...
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