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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An embarrassment in what sense? To ask the question at all? Or in how far we seem to be from being able to address it?
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @tegmark
In the sense that it is intellectually disturbing
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Why?
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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 consider them almost the same question from our current vantage.
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No, consciousness is just the self report of a model of the contents of the attentional system. Once you see how that particular dream is being generated it is no longer mysterious.
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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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Here’s my most recent lecture on the topichttps://youtu.be/e3K5UxWRRuY
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