There is a bit more to my concern. Two people may occupy different places and follow different paths, but why must every difference in their histories be preserved in their present experience? I’m hesitant to assume that consciousness, or any history-dependent system, records its past with arbitrarily fine precision. This is one of the objections I raised in earlier posts about the possible limits of spacetime’s fidelity (much less the fidelity of an information-processing body embedded within it). Distinct histories might still give rise to the same present experience.
My own ontological inclination lately is toward a genuinely open, generative unfolding. Still, I suspect that what a material system can represent at a given moment is limited, more boldly even, finite. So I would likely take the other side of that bet.
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