Computational complexity (specifically the natural occurrence of NP problems) as an explanation for various mind/body-like problems
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the intractable is treated as the impossible as an optimization
the possibility that it is more than an optimization- without it, it would be imperceptible/wouldn't exist
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I'm thinking about the recent complexity treatment of the black hole firewall paradox
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seems like the idea could apply to other "technically with a big enough computer" apparent paradoxes
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Chinese room/p zombies, feeling like we have free will/we exist as individuals, imperfect/fluid concepts feeling concrete
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it's important that the embodiment of the encoded info and the thing that would go haywire if it were decoded share resources
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for firewall, it's that the black hole and the observer decoding it's radiation share the heat death of the universe
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