The question of why there is something rather than nothing has always been the ultimate embarrassment to me. In the last few years, I have come around to Max @tegmark's position: existence is quite possibly the default. Everything that is implementable is implemented.
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If you ask yourself why something exists at all, does that not totally blow your mind? It is a much more miraculous riddle than consciousness.
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I think the reason it's confounding is something to do with it being a question that (potentially- I'm just guessing) in principle reductionism can't answer.
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these are fighting words
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How does saying ," that it is the default' feel like substantive progress and how is that more than an opinion? I don't get it.
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This is the progress I’ve been able to make.https://twitter.com/realtimeai/status/1096952367155695617?s=21 …
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