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All aboard the brain train

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@cwilstrup It just means the cosmos has some structure. And if it didn’t have any structure, we wouldn’t be here to find it

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@InfiniLuc *activates

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@InfiniLuc Because what we call the “objects of reality” are, like math, produced by the brain. They are residents of the same arena of neurons. Math encapsulates all neural representations that can possibly be activated in the brain. Experience activated a subset of those representations.

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@InfiniLuc Thus it is inevitable that, given enough time, all “objects of reality” will be found to match up with some piece of math

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@cwilstrup Our observations of nature consitute a FINITE set of neural activation patterns, and math constitutes an INFINITE set of neural activation patterns. The former is a subset of the latter

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@cwilstrup can possibly come up with (which is basically infinite). So it is inevitable that every pattern in nature is eventually found to match up with some part of math

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Like the morning crow of a rooster and the roar of the crowd at a rocket launch

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Spotify should create a new genre called “Misc.” for miscellaneous sounds

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*the experience of a painting on a wall

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@nickcammarata Subjective experience itself seems non-physical. It runs in parallel to physical activity in the brain but is distinct from it. A painting on a wall is a different sort of thing than the abstract physical correlate of it collectively generated by a particular ensemble of neurons

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@nickcammarata All of history could have occurred in exactly the same way without any consciousness ever having been experienced by any beings

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@nickcammarata Subjective experience itself seems non-physical. It runs in parallel to physical activity in the brain but is distinct from it. A painting on a wall is a different sort of thing than the abstract physical correlate of it collectively generated by a particular ensemble of neurons

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@morallawwithin experiences

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@nickcammarata @evolvingstuff It’s also possible consciousness doesn’t have a cause at all, let alone a cause for being clean, just as the totality of reality, of which it is a part, may exist without a cause

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@nickcammarata @evolvingstuff As for why subjective experience is clean, I don’t think that’s knowable. But, intuitively, it makes sense that it would be clean since its neural correlate is clean, on account of being optimized by billions of years of evolution

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@morallawwithin lots of em

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@morallawwithin experiences

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@nickcammarata @evolvingstuff I think we will eventually discover a comprehensive pairing between conscious experiences and their corresponding neural states. But it seems that the particular ways in which the two correspond, and the fact that consciousness exists at all, are as inexplicable as the universe