On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:08:52PM +1300, LizR wrote:
> On 22 January 2014 14:03, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > What is ultimately mysterious is why observed reality is consistent
> > with us as observers - the occam catastrophe problem, I mention in
> >
> 
> Do you mean consistent between us (i.e. it's mysterious that we agree on
> what we're observing) ?
> 

No - that it is consistent with oneself, as an observer. Why couldn't
we be a disembodied observer playing a virtual reality game? A p-ghost
as someone put it recently.

Cheers

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