On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 03:45, smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > When we dream we can experience nonsensical things that we usually only > recognize as nonsensical when we are awake. The state of consciousness > during a dream should therefore be consistent with a wide range of > different versions of me in the multiverse. These different versions > will have slightly different experiences that can cause exactly the same > reduced consciousness during a dream. This merger of inexact copies will > then cause unlikely chance events to be erased. So, if I've won the > lottery and go to sleep, I should expect to wake up as the version of me > who didn't win the lottery.
By extension there are low level states of consciousness, such as the first moments of waking up, which are consistent with the experience of a large number of humans, and I would therefore merge with those humans and more likely wake up as one of the more common ones, in China or India rather than Australia, where I currently find myself. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypWe5MG2iV25xXWS31pXw5fzgDXaufqh%2BvwK1Fa%3DQA5VhA%40mail.gmail.com.
