cosecantphi

I don't know what consciousness is, but I can be sure mine exists, and yours too probably.

But it seems pretty inherently mystical to me considering we can't even scratch the surface of researching the how and why we have qualia and subjective experience seemingly disconnected from material reality.

Idk, I took an edible and wanted to poke Hexbear with the idea, it's a fun time!

I was thinking that maybe if it's similar enough to my brain, it should just pick up my consciousness from whereever the fundamental of consciousness is stored. Like what happened the first time, right?

That's assuming consciousness is fundamental to the universe and not some emergent thing, I guess.

I know there's an acceptable margin of error here because I can place drugs, foreign objects, inside my head to radically alter the functioning of my brain without losing consciousness or irreparably damaging it.

I wasn't even thinking about the Boltzmann brain scenario, I was just considering the chance that literally everything could reform like this as we take time out to infinity, all slightly different permutations too

Right, but we aren't talking about the set of natural numbers, we're talking about the set of ways matter can be distributed in the universe. I know a living me is a possible state in this universe because I exist, so if I can spotaneously form once, why can't I spontaneously form again?

Why doesn't it imply that? We can put a number on the chance that particles randomly come together to reform minds. That number is arbitrarily small, but it's not zero, hence why we are considering arbitrarily large time scales.

That sounds heavenly.

Isn't entropy a statistical proccess? Given arbitrarily large time scales, a disordered system can briefly become ordered.

Somehow missed this when you posted it earlier but I want say I've had the same thought and it's how I feel too.

That's kind of the thing about infinity, right? Who's to say that the universe is not cyclical if it never ends? The coming heat death, and the arrow of time in general, is a statistical process, not a fundamental one. After enough time, anything physically possible will happen, including the sudden reversal of entropy and therefore death.

And since we cannot perceive nonexistance, one must always exist from ones own perspective! The eternity before I'm born is the only reference frame I have for the supposed eternity after death, but that itself spontanseously ended with my birth, why can't it happen again? And if it does, it should be instantly after death from my perspective, too.

Especially the stinky owls! And the smelly raccoons! The more dishevled and filthy the better! And yeah the beanis too, I guess!

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