I definitely think the computational complexity approach is worth looking into, though I think computational complexity behaves kind of weirdly at low complexities.
I like the view that waterfalls are at least a bit conscious! Definitely goes against my own intuition.
I’m a bit worried that whether or not there is a low description complexity and low computational complexity algorithm that decodes a human from a waterfall might depend heavily on how we encode the waterfall as a mathematical object and that although it would be clear for “natural” encodings that it was unlike a human we might need a theory to tell us which encodings are natural and which are not.
Not sure what do you mean by “computational complexity behaves kind of weirdly at low complexities”? In this case, I would be tempted to try the complexity class L (logarithmic space complexity).
The most natural encoding is your “qualia”, your raw sense data. This still leaves some freedom for how do you represent it, but this freedom has only a very minor effect.
I definitely think the computational complexity approach is worth looking into, though I think computational complexity behaves kind of weirdly at low complexities.
I like the view that waterfalls are at least a bit conscious! Definitely goes against my own intuition.
I’m a bit worried that whether or not there is a low description complexity and low computational complexity algorithm that decodes a human from a waterfall might depend heavily on how we encode the waterfall as a mathematical object and that although it would be clear for “natural” encodings that it was unlike a human we might need a theory to tell us which encodings are natural and which are not.
Not sure what do you mean by “computational complexity behaves kind of weirdly at low complexities”? In this case, I would be tempted to try the complexity class L (logarithmic space complexity).
The most natural encoding is your “qualia”, your raw sense data. This still leaves some freedom for how do you represent it, but this freedom has only a very minor effect.