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Re:We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop ac... by whimsicalism on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:23PM (#31729365)
I don't see the paradox. "I" is a notion of semantics.. all there is is interacting wavefunctions behaving according to physical laws. There is nothing else.

This seems entirely self-consistent and non-paradoxical.

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Re:We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop ac... by zzzeek on Monday June 13, 2022 @07:04PM (#31732844)
it is but none of it includes the subjective experience part, which is the part I find paradoxical. subjective experience itself makes no sense. Where would I go "experientially" as my "self" is split? to the left or the right? I know the answer is, "nowhere, there is no 'I'". but to imagine it experientially, seems as though I'd find myself on one side or the other.
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