The questions surrounding conscious experiences and splits, e.g. which color “I” will likely see afterward, etc, intrinsically use the concept of a first-person perspective. I.e. they take which Ebborian is “I” as something inherently apparent. But physics doesn’t answer “why you are you and I am me?”, or why “I am experiencing the world from the perspective of this particular object?”. It will be a big surprise if the Ultimate Grand Unified Theory of Everything could answer this. Put it another way, if it does answer that, then Po’mi’s questions would have been thoroughly explained by the UGUTE.
If the first-person perspective is not explained by physics, and at the same time plays an integral part in world modeling: -after all, it’s all based on the experiences of reading dials and turning knobs-, then maybe the right way is to treat it as something fundamentally primitive. Something all physical reasoning ought to be conducted from.
The questions surrounding conscious experiences and splits, e.g. which color “I” will likely see afterward, etc, intrinsically use the concept of a first-person perspective. I.e. they take which Ebborian is “I” as something inherently apparent. But physics doesn’t answer “why you are you and I am me?”, or why “I am experiencing the world from the perspective of this particular object?”. It will be a big surprise if the Ultimate Grand Unified Theory of Everything could answer this. Put it another way, if it does answer that, then Po’mi’s questions would have been thoroughly explained by the UGUTE.
If the first-person perspective is not explained by physics, and at the same time plays an integral part in world modeling: -after all, it’s all based on the experiences of reading dials and turning knobs-, then maybe the right way is to treat it as something fundamentally primitive. Something all physical reasoning ought to be conducted from.