I’m curious why no one mentioned Solomonoff prior here. Anticipation of subjective experience can be expressed as: what is a probability of experiencing X, given my prior experiences. Thus we “swap” ontological status of objective reality and subjective experience, then we can use Solomonoff prior to infer probabilities.
When one wakes up as a copy, one experiences instantaneous arbitrary space-time travel, thus Solomonoff prior for this experience should be lower, than that of wake-up-as-original one (if original one can wake up at all).
Given that approach, it seems that our subjective experience will tend to be as much “normal” as it allowed by simplest computable laws of physics.
It seems I’ve given too little information to make it worth thinking on it. Here’s detailed explanation.
I’ll abbreviate thread of subjective experience as TSE.
If I make 10^6 copies of myself, then all 10^6+1 continuations of TSE are indistinguishable to external observer. Thus all these continuations are invariant under change of TSE, and it seems that we can assign equal probability to them. Yes, we can, but:
If TSE is not ontologically fundamental, then it is not bound by spacetime, laws of physics, universe, Everett multiverse, etc. There will be no logical contradiction, if you will find youself next instant as Boltzmann brain, or in one of infinitely many universes of level 4 multiverse, or outside your own lightcone. Thus:
Every finite set of continuations of TSE has zero probability. And finally:
We have no options, but Solomonoff prior to infer what we will experience next.
I’m curious why no one mentioned Solomonoff prior here. Anticipation of subjective experience can be expressed as: what is a probability of experiencing X, given my prior experiences. Thus we “swap” ontological status of objective reality and subjective experience, then we can use Solomonoff prior to infer probabilities.
When one wakes up as a copy, one experiences instantaneous arbitrary space-time travel, thus Solomonoff prior for this experience should be lower, than that of wake-up-as-original one (if original one can wake up at all).
Given that approach, it seems that our subjective experience will tend to be as much “normal” as it allowed by simplest computable laws of physics.
It seems I’ve given too little information to make it worth thinking on it. Here’s detailed explanation.
I’ll abbreviate thread of subjective experience as TSE.
If I make 10^6 copies of myself, then all 10^6+1 continuations of TSE are indistinguishable to external observer. Thus all these continuations are invariant under change of TSE, and it seems that we can assign equal probability to them. Yes, we can, but:
If TSE is not ontologically fundamental, then it is not bound by spacetime, laws of physics, universe, Everett multiverse, etc. There will be no logical contradiction, if you will find youself next instant as Boltzmann brain, or in one of infinitely many universes of level 4 multiverse, or outside your own lightcone. Thus:
Every finite set of continuations of TSE has zero probability. And finally:
We have no options, but Solomonoff prior to infer what we will experience next.