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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Hi Joscha. Do you have a stance on the 'hard problem' of consciousness also? (The description you just gave perfectly fits my view of the I guess non-hard problem.)
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Your sensation of seeing red is itself an illusion, and you don’t really have that experience of redness?
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Consciousness is real to the self, but the self is not real.
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