A mind becomes its own universe the moment it's sealed off from the outside. Conversely, universe becomes mind the moment it makes contact.
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Minds exists in a sweet spot between isolation and dissolution. Too high the bandwidth and a mind starts to prefer the outside over itself.
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What is a skull? It not only keeps the world out, it also keeps a mind from dissolving. The difference really comes down to skull thickness.
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By the way, everybody who wants to witness the emergence of a mind must read Egan's orphanogenesis gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/01/Or
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ah, neat! isn't that the long version of "wang's carpets?" been meaning to read it
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it basically assumes subjective idealism (the idea that we ourselves are also caught in something that experiences)
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alternatively "reality exists only within minds"
also the idea/observation that one is only really a person when there is an other
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it's probably a fun meditation to try to find ways to subvert/avoid "cogito ergo sum"
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