This seems to be related to Eliezer’s example of your brain state becoming entangled with that of your shoelaces. The key feature there is systems that respond differently to different inputs (e.g. your shoelaces reflect light differently if they’re untied).
Yes, the ideas in that post are closely related to this one. I think that the main difference is that, in that post Eliezer is interested in epistemology whereas here I am interested in how the process works from a physics point of view. For example, in my post, there is no need for ‘information’ (as I am using the word) to be correlated with true beliefs.
This seems to be related to Eliezer’s example of your brain state becoming entangled with that of your shoelaces. The key feature there is systems that respond differently to different inputs (e.g. your shoelaces reflect light differently if they’re untied).
I presume you are talking about the post What is Evidence?
Yes, the ideas in that post are closely related to this one. I think that the main difference is that, in that post Eliezer is interested in epistemology whereas here I am interested in how the process works from a physics point of view. For example, in my post, there is no need for ‘information’ (as I am using the word) to be correlated with true beliefs.
That’s the one.