now, if you had one of those, an experiential point of view that just experiences whatever happens in physicality without any continuity beyond what physicality contains, and you were atemporal, you wouldn't actually need more than one. which has a certain resonance to it
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra
but the lack of continuity in this proposition in itself defeats testability, so, y'know, oops
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what's odd, though, is that this point of awareness does not appear to actually be strictly passive, or i wouldn't be able to speak of having one. there's a hypothesis that explains this that amuses me so greatly that i experience it as very likely
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this is that the point of awareness is actually strictly passive, but the meat is right *by accident* about its existence, because having that sort of thing as an organizing driver has evolutionary advantages. and possibly being right by accident about them attracts them, idfk
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i just really adore the idea that the one thing we can actually know about anything, that we are having experiences, fails the test of justified true belief because we're right about it for the wrong reasons
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Are you willing to elaborate on what you mean by "falsified experience"?
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roughly this kind of thinghttps://www.consciousentities.com/tag/blind-brain-theory/ …
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So what you're seeing is a hallucination even when you're not, medically speaking, hallucinating?
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yes -- the sensory input is so massively post-processed by the brainmeats and tuned for specific purposes that it's a generally reliable *map* to what's happening in the outside world but it's risible to consider our perceptions to be complete or accurate re: *what is happening*.
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that generally reliable map is one whose iconography obsessively shows the things that are of life-or-death importance to a savannah ape tens of thousands of years ago, so its usefulness today is, uh, something of a kludge.
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luckily, the street finds its own uses for an obsessive drive to hunt and gather combined with hypertrophied spatial modeling and edge recognitionpic.twitter.com/RB3bJvUd4N
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SO HYPE ngl
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but also mad humans don't have Henry's Pocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry's_pocket …)
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