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https://vitrifyher.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/how-to-not-die/

>First of all, restrict existence to all computable processes. Within that multiverse, there are many instances of being (qualia, experience, consciousness). For all instances of being, there exists a certain subjective quality.

>Due to relativity of simultaneity, time arises in the computations and not in the fundamental physics of the universe.

>This means that the subjective quality of time serves a survival role. When the subjective quality of pink circle arises, it serves a survival role. The universe doesn’t attach identities to particular brains. Particular brains are not ontologically unitary objects. So it would be a mystery why I don’t experience a blue circle if an indeterminate amount of processing in the past light cone of “my brain” was for blue and for circle. Yet it is only the processing distributed in spacetime that codes for pink that binds with circle.

>What is experienced is always what is adaptive. There is no ontologically unitary brain ticking forward through a sequential path. So whatever experiences do become atemporally integrated into being (experience, qualia, consciousness) are not random. There is some mechanism by which this is determined.

>Unless we imagine that quantum mechanics only applies to some separate magisterium of small things, as far as we know, the probability distribution that governs what we observe is the squared moduli of the universal wavefunction. Denying macroscopic decoherence is contrary to Occam’s Razor and experimental evidence continues to accumulate for superposition of ever larger objects.

>The only way to derive the squared modulus of the wavefunction as that which should govern our anticipation is by applying the behavior of a rational Bayesian agent in Hilbert Space. Otherwise, there would be no reason to anticipate one result in infinity as opposed to any other result in infinity.

https://vitrifyher.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/how-to-not-die/

>First of all, restrict existence to all computable processes. Within that multiverse, there are many instances of being (qualia, experience, consciousness). For all instances of being, there exists a certain subjective quality.

>Due to relativity of simultaneity, time arises in the computations and not in the fundamental physics of the universe.

>This means that the subjective quality of time serves a survival role. When the subjective quality of pink circle arises, it serves a survival role. The universe doesn’t attach identities to particular brains. Particular brains are not ontologically unitary objects. So it would be a mystery why I don’t experience a blue circle if an indeterminate amount of processing in the past light cone of “my brain” was for blue and for circle. Yet it is only the processing distributed in spacetime that codes for pink that binds with circle.

>What is experienced is always what is adaptive. There is no ontologically unitary brain ticking forward through a sequential path. So whatever experiences do become atemporally integrated into being (experience, qualia, consciousness) are not random. There is some mechanism by which this is determined.

>Unless we imagine that quantum mechanics only applies to some separate magisterium of small things, as far as we know, the probability distribution that governs what we observe is the squared moduli of the universal wavefunction. Denying macroscopic decoherence is contrary to Occam’s Razor and experimental evidence continues to accumulate for superposition of ever larger objects.

>The only way to derive the squared modulus of the wavefunction as that which should govern our anticipation is by applying the behavior of a rational Bayesian agent in Hilbert Space. Otherwise, there would be no reason to anticipate one result in infinity as opposed to any other result in infinity.