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     6 years ago (edited)

    A very curious read, some parts of it suggest similarities to the "impossible" Awareness singularity phenomenon I mentioned in BitcoinTalk messaging with you, if you recall.

    There's something quite peculiar going on regarding this subject, though trying to specify anything about it is on shakey ground. And of questionable utility.

    But ultimately without whatever "it" is, everything would be for nought, we would be nothing more than wonderfully intelligent, self aware, self inquiring, self feeling, emotional clockwork, with no "one" truly experiencing anything through us.

    I can easily imagine whole universes just like ours, Identical in every other imaginable way, but no one actually experiencing any of those lives, a whole universe being that tree that falls in the woods without anyone hearing it.

    Personally, I'm content with it simply existing and being it, trying to study it using the machinery of our minds, or anything in the universe seems akin to trying to pick a single molecule of gas out of the atmosphere using boxing gloves, grossly unsuitable. Nothing we have in the universe is even remotely suitable for the task.

    It's paradoxical that its existence is even discoverable in universe, because it "Should" have NO effect on the universe where it is being thought about, so I'm likely to be quite wrong in part, or completely. Something is wrong somewhere.

    So. Probably best to simply appreciate being it. And turn one's study to everything else in the universe where one might actually make some in-universe progress, making existence better for it/us through bettering ourselves in areas we can actually understand and benefit from no?

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       5 years ago (edited)

      I wrote on Quora in response to a question and a theory about what it the fundamental unit of existence at the smallest-scale:

      More abstractly the fundamental unit of existence is information. Information only exists relative to some other information. Thus for information to exist necessitates the absence of a universal total order, i.e. the lack of omniscience. Thus the fundamental requirement or attribute of existence is unbounded disorder aka entropy (or essentially the distribution of possibilities which maximizes uncertainty). We can relate this to the point in your cited video about the inability of waves to be a complete model, due to the unbounded possibilities. Waves as a model essentially model the theoretical multiverse where everything exists simultaneously thus nothing exists as discernibly more relevant. Or stated another way the multiverse is a total order and thus is static with no uncertainty.

      You’re describing a model that you claim is consistent with extant orders of theoretical understanding, but it must be necessarily incomplete because it’s not abstractly fundamental. Although this says nothing about whether it might be very useful. I need to dig more into understanding your theory. A cursory read has piqued my curiousity, but it is 1am. Bedtime.

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