Which implies that animals mostly don't experience consciousness? Which is weird because they clearly act like they do?
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i really think im not high enough for this topic.
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SEE MY COMMENT IN ANOTHER BRANCH OF THE THREAD
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Like I'm 95% sure that anaesthetic exposure in childhood is why I've always had a vague sense of the worldview we're discussing
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living 4th dimensionally just doesnt seem even purposeful. artistic maybe, but nothing can be changed or notably accomplished.
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Well, here's the part that still bugs me and bugged me before seeing the movie and was part of why relativity messes with me
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@arthur_affect) back in for this one. So what I still don't get is how light cones and motion work together1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
A light cone is, in the Rietdikij-Putnam argument someone linked earlier, the reality that an observer in a particular standpoint has?
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Now, I understand that "observer" here does not actually mean "conscious thinking observer" necessarily
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But what I fail to understand is why a coherent reality is maintained by anything that moves slower than light
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I mean if you really get into it that's the idea of relativity, our idea of "coherent reality" is an illusion
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"Relativity of simultaneity" means you can't "objectively" say whether two separated events took place "at the same time"
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but for a subjective existence in the same frame (the earth) loss of microseconds is negligible.
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