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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That’s not really an answer. Do you have experiences or not? Chalmers and Descartes are right. I can doubt any account of what my experiences indicate, but not that I’m having them. I’ll watch your lecture though.

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The problem is not with the experience, but with "you". What you experience is not yourself in a physical world. It's a simulated self in a simulated world (tuned to predict sensory patterns), and the simulated self models what it would be like to experience.
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