Philip Thrift

errantist programmer

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@Philip_Goff All of these disciplines are genres of writing.
(Derrida) ? :)

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@Philip_Goff @elonmusk Science could expanded to include psychons (a hypothetical particle of consciousness).

https://t.co/Vm9AJoROnW

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@psybertron @Philip_Goff @keithfrankish φbits = 2bits+qbits (physical bits: information)
ψbits = xbits (psychical bits: experience)

https://t.co/4f7tlEYERg

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@Philip_Goff @keithfrankish Here, at the end, David Chalmers says the hardware running our simulations could be non-digital.
https://t.co/LG9DjduOMg

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@Philip_Goff @keithfrankish My takeaway:

Panpsychism as hardware, virtual reality as software.

Thus updating Rorty: "Brain as hardware, culture as software."

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@JimBaggott Though my ranking in what to explore, "simulation hypothesis" beats "many worlds".

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@keithfrankish @Philip_Goff The question for the simulation overlords:

What programming language is our 'reality' program written in?

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@keithfrankish @Philip_Goff The "simulated" characters in the Matrix movies didn't create a company to make the Matrix movies.

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@Philip_Goff A careful definition of "simulation" (re: the simulation hypothesis)?

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@keithfrankish @sphexish @Philip_Goff Suffering and evil? I think it's complicated ...

"In the end, mind (consciousness/qualia), mathematics (programming), and morality (karma) all live happily together in matter (physical stuff)."

https://t.co/5lfkz57gzC

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@sphexish @keithfrankish @Philip_Goff We are programs running on a cosmopsychic computer.

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@keithfrankish @Philip_Goff Of course every (conventional computer) simulation is "real": It is just electrons flowing through chips and pixels.

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@Philip_Goff @keithfrankish Our simulation (a program) needs real computer "hardware" to run on.

What kind of "bits" is that computer actually made of?
https://t.co/4f7tlEYERg

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@keithfrankish Monads ?

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@skdh @gmusser @philipcball @bsgallagher @JimBaggott @curiouswavefn I read this decades ago ...
https://t.co/keLknzPX77

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@ununiuniuni Depends on the programming language.
https://t.co/izv6FEucX8

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@WKCosmo Quantum Dynamics without the Wave Function
https://t.co/rr14uncRJF

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@Philip_Goff Karma rules. :)

https://t.co/5lfkz57gzC

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@keithfrankish @Philip_Goff Hmm. "statistical arguments alone do not give us good reason to expect that entropy will always continue to increase" https://t.co/E4ZXC8BbDt