On 06-04-2020 23:59, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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.
Yes, but the question is then if the definition of "you" that includes
Chinese people would be reasonable. If you think of yourself as a
program that processes data, then while all tat data does end up
redefining the program, there is a sort of coarse grained notion of the
program that's defined by the bulk of the data it has been processing
since it came into existence. One can then talk in a meaningful way
about the same program processing data X or data Y. So, you can have the
experience of having won the lottery, and the same "you" could also have
experienced not winning the lottery.
Saibal
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