Jack comments on Getting Over Dust Theory - Less Wrong

6 Post author: jhuffman 15 December 2009 10:40PM

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Comment author: Jack 16 December 2009 11:21:03PM 1 point [-]

Of course it wouldn't be different at all. But what matters is that my current state of consciousness would be extremely unlikely for a dust mind. This doesn't totally rule out the possibility but it basically puts it in the same category as every other skeptical thesis.

And actually it is probably worse than the other skeptical theses since it includes some really weird assumptions about information and causation, as far as I can tell.

Comment author: jhuffman 17 December 2009 12:30:41AM 0 points [-]

It is extremely unlikely, but in an unbounded configuration space it simply has to happen, and to happen many times.