I didn't read through the math, but appreciate this post. Are you familiar with Douglas Hofstader's "Metamagical Themas"? It's a collection of articles he wrote for Scientific American in the early 1980s. I haven't read it in a while but I remember him arguing persuasively that the right thing to do is cooperate in the prisoner's dilemma. It was a concept he called "superrational" thinking (which I guess now has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality). You've generalized this concept beyon...
I recently found this post and I have been fascinated by it for weeks. It explains so much of what I see in online and academic discourse on consciousness. Roughly I think you could say that Camp #1 are illusionists and Camp #2 are realists, but what traditional labels tend to do is sort people by what they believe. The Camp #1 / Camp #2 distinction sorts people based on their intuitions, what they feel when they introspect. The difference is critical.
I'm very curious how those differences may come about. I'm a physicalist but... (read more)