Exploring flashes of intuition can be helpful. And I doubt I hit the mark on this one, I agree. But you presented me with a fresh idea, which doesn’t happen every day. I’ve not considered this concept of consciousness as a simulation. It’s an exciting idea. Ty
I honestly don't think that this "we" you are talking about (as the agent of understanding and discovery) exists. No communal mind will cover the gaps in your individual understanding. You are completely alone, and don't understand anyone and anything before you do it yourself.
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Wow. I’m completely alone. That’s disconcerting. I understand nothing and I’m completely alone in my goal of an empirical science of consciousness. My goodness. I suppose you find some romantic appeal in such a notion.
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Yes, other minds are a construct in your own mind. You cannot learn anything from them without fully reconstructing it yourself. Intellectual progress is fundamentally solitary, because you cannot bind partial understandings across minds. "We" cannot be the agent of thinking.
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