RE: Consciousness is simply an illusion emergent of a Boltzmann brain configuration....
April 5, 2016 at 3:18 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2016 at 3:19 am by Excited Penguin.)
(April 4, 2016 at 11:19 am)robvalue Wrote: Well, I have decided that ultimately I believe in a form of absurdism (I think it was LFC who introduced me to this term). I've always summed it up as, "Things are as real to any particular observer as they appear to be".
So objectively I suspect that consciousness is an illusion of sorts; but nothing is ever viewed truly objectively. Each person has their consciousness/experiences, and to them, they are as real as it gets. I find that trying to pick that apart and say it's not real; or else to determine what is actually objectively real is ultimately an exercise in futility. The best we can do is agree on shared experiences, for now at least.
Presumably, one step in solving this problem would be to hear a particularly powerful A.I.'s take on reality, don't you think? And experts believe we're not that far from that either.
