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Are you suggesting properties of the physical that we have not yet discovered?

I guess you can't argue with that. But I am skeptical. :D We also wouldn't see them if there weren't any. While not seeing any is not proof that there...

Perhaps the answer to that will give the answer to, as Chalmers put it, Why is the physical "processing accompanied by conscious experience? Why does ...

I don't know what those who think it is an illusion think it is. Still working on it.

I can't say I understand the argument in any way. Heh. The camera will only record what happens in a certain part of the spectrum. It will also record...

An illusion needs a viewer. The waves of heat coming off the road on a hot day with strong sunshine give the illusion of water on the road. IF someone...

If Boltzmann Objects could exist, if the universe was infinitely old, we'd see billions of odd things floating around. So either they can't exist, or ...

Oddly, I never much watched it. No particular reason. I only saw a few scattered episodes. I'd like to. Guess I'll see if it's available on one channe...

I don't account for it. Although it's fun, I think this whole topic is nonsense. I grew up on TOS. I know a lot of people find it unwatchable because ...

it may be divergence, but it is also entirely legit. OK, maybe there couldn’t be such a thing as a functioning Enterprise, Boltzmann or otherwise, for...

Have you people no respect for dibs?!? Barbarians!

Hey, I call dibs on the first Boltzmann USS Enterprise when it pops up!!!

I’ve never been in a sensory-deprivation tank. I suppose an extended stay in one might give hints on how much of our self would remain if our brain wa...

Ah. I didn’t realize the idea is that the universe is infinitely old.

Then why would everything have happened already?

I don’t understand. Has there already been an infinite duration?

Just because we might expect it in an infinite duration, doesn’t mean we have reason to expect it now.

I wonder how many Boltzmann brains think they are Martians. And how many think they are from sentient stars. And how many think they are in a universe...

The only part of you that you cannot lose, and still think of yourself as you (and, for that matter, still think), is your brain. If you could no long...

The die has an infinite number of sides. Not the finite number that the one you postulate has. It's not simple arithmetic. You could roll this die an ...

Anything's possible. But with an infinite number of possibilities that are not works of literature, including an infinite amount of gibberish; an inco...

The video says: "But if the universe exists over an infinitely long time, extremely unlikely events will happen." I'm sure some will. But there are an...

Heh. I suspect not. Can't imagine the mind exists independent of the brain. Seems to me the mind is the brain, doing... mind things. Maybe someday we'...

Heh. Yes. Causal. Knowing the speech to text and swiping make a lot of errors, I try to proofread. I obviously do not always succeed. I do. We do more...

Thanks for this. Although the concept is familiar, I hadn't heard the term before. Love your quartets, btw.

Thank you! I just bought it. I hope I'm up for it.

Well, I don't think that. I am speaking from my understanding of the reductionist view. Again, the idea that everything is reducible to physics. Our c...

I can only address a little at the moment. Must sleep, and that's not conducive to coherent thought. I don't know what you mean here. I was going to s...

If I understand physical reductionists (and that's an "if", and I guess not all agree with each other), physics' recognition of the things you mention...

Hi everyone. This is my first post, and I thought a disclaimer would be a good idea. I think consciousness is the most fascinating thing there is. We ...