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If you did subscribe to mind brain identity theory, you wouldn't have to struggle to find a way of explaining why the jumping you don't predict but don't observe doesn't occur. Adopting a theory that doesn't match observation, and then bolting on more theory to solve the problem is kind of not good.
I can't 'observe' jumping by definition.
That's not even close to what I'm doing.
The standard worry about DT is that (from the outside) a coherent thread of consciousnes goes though a set of incoherent external world states, which, for, the inside, would look like observing chaos. You have said that what you are worried about is observing chaos, although you have also said that you have a solution to the no-physical-law problem of DT. So who knows?
ETA If you jump, but don't notice you are jumping, what is the problem.
You've also said that what you are worried about is something to do,with measure, although there is an answer to that as well...so....whatever.
Which is?
I do not recall saying any such thing.
I really don't know what the heck you are talking about. "No-physical-law" problem? And I thought I was bad at conveying these concepts.
The problem is that I prefer for my subjective consciousness to stay in one world.
An extrapolation from a single coherent theory, which you apparently think works through 'observation.'
Observing chaos is the same thing as having no discernible physical laws.
Why?
I took your use of the word 'worried' to say that I was afraid this was true.
Because I subjectively value my universe and do not wish to go to another one.
Under MWI and DT, which are not the same theory, you dont go to another universe, in the sense of leaving the old one..
Under physicalism+simulationusmism, which is not the same as the other two, you can cease to exist at one point in time, and be resurrected in a simulation millions of years later. But I don't see how staying awake would prevent that.
I note that Coherent falls some way short of True or even Likely.
If you were concerned about jumping and jumping was merely 'extremely difficult to observe', that would probably be ok.
However, if you can't observe jumping by definition and are still concerned about it, that's called a 'cognitive defect', and you should fix it. Fix the cognitive defect, that is. The one in your head. The one that's making you be irrationally concerned over a defined unobservable.
No amount of handwaving, being concerned, or liking your current 'subjective reality' is going to make your unobservable observable. Fix the core problem, don't try to paper over it.