Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?
by pas on Friday July 29, 2022 @12:28PM
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"Soap bubbles are computational so everything is computational."
Wait, what?
So get a wood panel, put a few pegs on it, submerge it in soapy water and then slowly raise it from the water.
The soap film that forms between the pegs wants to minimize its surface area (to maximize its energy) so it forms a Steiner tree beteween the pegs, but .. not always!
Yes, exactly, yet it's unfalsifiable. Which makes it unscientific, but doesn't make it incorrect. It's just a maximally useless (trivial) model of the world.
Wait, what?
So get a wood panel, put a few pegs on it, submerge it in soapy water and then slowly raise it from the water.
The soap film that forms between the pegs wants to minimize its surface area (to maximize its energy) so it forms a Steiner tree beteween the pegs, but .. not always!
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1720 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=122
> solipsism feels like
Yes, exactly, yet it's unfalsifiable. Which makes it unscientific, but doesn't make it incorrect. It's just a maximally useless (trivial) model of the world.