/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16182094
>What are the implications it has for our perception of reality, the nature of subjective experience, and death?
At least one of these four things must be false:
>First-person realism: For any conscious subject, there are first-personal facts.
>Non-solipsism: There is more than one conscious subject.
>Non-fragmentation: The totality of facts that hold in any given world are compossible.
>One world: Reality consists of one world, not of many.

An effective way to detect if someone is an NPC is to ask them what they think of the vertiginous question. If their response to it is something like "the question is meaningless", they are an NPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question

Any complete model of consciousness would have to be able to answer Hellie's vertiginous question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question

>>15772724
One way to identify NPCs is to ask them what they think of Hellie's vertiginous question. If they say something like "the question is meaningless" or "because you wouldn't be you if you were someone else", they are an NPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question

>>15784378
Even if the vertiginous question can't be explicitly answered, you can still deduce aspects of reality based on the premise that it is a valid question. Personally, I am skeptical that physicalist theories of consciousness are even compatible with a certain locus of awareness being "live" and others "not live" at all.