I believe that part of my mind's working includes using models of the world but to say my mind /is/ a model/simulation is a whole different thing. Why would I believe that?
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @Hutcheson and
Well, there’s the premise that IF we will someday be capable of seamless reality simulation, then the statistical probability that we are already living in a simulation is very high. If you accept that initial premise, then the Simulation Hypothesis has a high degree of validity
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Replying to @SimsYStuart @Hutcheson and
I'm not sure if that is what
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @SimsYStuart and
But the Simulation Hypothesis 1st assumes that 'I am a Turing Machine' is viable. If we locate consciousness in the Turing Machine per se, then we must say that a stack of printouts on a very long shelf is conscious, if it contains the full description of a TM and its history
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @SimsYStuart and
I'd rather say we should notice that a TM, like any other mechanical device, doesn't experience things. It just does things.
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Replying to @chrisfcarroll @SimsYStuart and
I think that is correct. A physical thing cannot experience anything. Only a simulation can. Physical things can implement simulations, however.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
So you’re conceptualizing conscious as a holographic simulation created by the physical brain? That’s interesting.
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Replying to @SimsYStuart @chrisfcarroll and
I don't know if it is best characterized as holographic, or how you define holographic here. But I think that a conscious observer is self-reporting on a model of its own attention, and the content of that is a specific relationship between observer and observed simulacrum.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
Sounds like a “user interface” for a biological robot, when you put it like that. But the idea is attractive. Have you written a paper along these lines?
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Replying to @SimsYStuart @Plinz and
Are you basing this concept on Pribram & Bahm’s model of the holographic brain? That’s the first model which leapt to mind when you described the idea.
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No, I am unaware of any relation of my thoughts to his, except very indirectly.
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Replying to @Plinz @chrisfcarroll and
Hmm. If we take the holographic principle described by Bohm and think of the brain as a holographic nested hierarchy, a logical conclusion would be a unitary holographic simulation (consciousness) emerging from a trillion individual holographic simulations (neurons).
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Replying to @SimsYStuart @chrisfcarroll and
It seems to me that you are wantonly gluing intuition fragments together. That is fine because you don't try to implement any of that. But I don't think that things that cannot be implemented can be real.
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