playing with the idea that I am a figment of the imagination of our living-room lamp
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why is this lamp imagining me? perhaps I have died and it misses me. perhaps it is accustomed to seeing people and thus imagines them when they are not there. perhaps it is, a whim.
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it seems unlikely that I am a figment of the imagination of a lamp but I can't quite rule it out perhaps this is a sign I need better metaphysics perhaps this is a sign the *lamp* needs better metaphysics
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Replying to @selentelechia
Wow the lamp that's imagining me is putting a *lot* of work into the "other" "people" it's imagining I'm interacting with.
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nah it just spun you up and let you run your own inner simulation of other people so like yes the lamp is "imagining" them but basically it's delegated the job
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Replying to @selentelechia
No way this is some clockmaker shit, the chances I'd just happen to simulate someone else wondering if their lamp was imagining them are infinitesimal. This is lampoetic intervention
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@eigenrobot do you know your wife's imagining other men?2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
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consider that theory of mind was developed by predators to more efficiently catch and kill prey
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your halfway there
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