This is an interesting reductio, even if not intended that way. I think the key trick is that it’s easy to say “I” or “myself,” when talking about both you and the hypothetical you being simulated in a dream, but you aren’t actually providing a full description, only an IOU for such a description. But now that I put it that way, this issue doesn’t apply the same way to the regular ol’ simulation hypothesis.
I wonder if you could expand more on this observation. So you are saying that a dream is operating on a very limited dataset on a person, not an exact copy of information (“full description”). Do I understand right?
I sort of do intend of it as a kind of reductio, unless people find reason for this “Dream Hypothesis” to be taken seriously.
>So you are saying that a dream is operating on a very limited dataset on a person, not an exact copy of information (“full description”). Do I understand right?
Slightly different—I mean that when I talk about someone appearing in my dream, I am being somewhat loose with the definition of that “someone.” Like, I would agree that my dream of the person is much smaller and is a poor copy of the real person. But the thing I was trying to point at is the broad definition by which I might equivocate between them, e.g. calling them by the same name.
This is an interesting reductio, even if not intended that way. I think the key trick is that it’s easy to say “I” or “myself,” when talking about both you and the hypothetical you being simulated in a dream, but you aren’t actually providing a full description, only an IOU for such a description. But now that I put it that way, this issue doesn’t apply the same way to the regular ol’ simulation hypothesis.
I wonder if you could expand more on this observation. So you are saying that a dream is operating on a very limited dataset on a person, not an exact copy of information (“full description”). Do I understand right?
I sort of do intend of it as a kind of reductio, unless people find reason for this “Dream Hypothesis” to be taken seriously.
>So you are saying that a dream is operating on a very limited dataset on a person, not an exact copy of information (“full description”). Do I understand right?
Slightly different—I mean that when I talk about someone appearing in my dream, I am being somewhat loose with the definition of that “someone.” Like, I would agree that my dream of the person is much smaller and is a poor copy of the real person. But the thing I was trying to point at is the broad definition by which I might equivocate between them, e.g. calling them by the same name.