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Replying to @Plinz
Replicators. Contingent evo history (if 'human' = animal label)/creativity (if 'human' = 'people').
Normal VR/hallucinatory process as when awake, uncoupled from sensory input.
Anthropic argument works well here?
Physical stuff instantiating abstract stuff/info.
No.
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Are other conscious animals a vr program that is written by the environment/through force? And humans just an updated VR with a creative code writing program that can self edit (free will)?
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Preeetty much! Although I don't really know how to think about animal 'consciousness'. (Or human, for that matter... :D )
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dunno if this adds to VR concept but maybe as mental maps (written as configurations of neurons in CNS of internal body and external environment) feeling, being, a code that searches the map for places of conflict/lack of it, to direct action
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Somehow an emergent phenomenon of the code interacting with its mental maps and keeping a record (adjusting and adding to mental maps) of the changes through time.
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Sure. I like the mental maps idea. But my issue with consciousness is the "something it's like to be an X"-ness. Cos on the one hand, I worry it's a red herring: that there's _nothing_ it's like to be anything. But OTO, there certainly seems to be "something it's like" to be me!
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When we say that consciousness is the "experience of what it's like," it is not just a figure of speech. A brain cannot know what anything is like, so it simulates that. The self is the simulacrum of the brain's agency, and the self's simulated access to the world is experience.
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This doesn't quite close the gap for me. I'm not confused about the self per se. I'm confused about why it *feels* like something to be (a simulated) self... if indeed it 'feels like' anything at all!
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You basically exist in the same way as a character in a multi media novel. The novel is written by the brain. The content is exactly the one that is authored into your self-report.
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Same problem. Why does it feel like anything at all to be the character? (If it does!)
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What am I missing? (I find myself continually re-reading "the self's simulated access to the world is experience"...
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