What is the mechanism for qualia?
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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After I'm gone, how would everyone I've loved remember me?
What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?
Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would've been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.
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I want to know what the best version of myself would have been like. What did I miss out on.
How might entropy be meaningfully reversed?
Over or under?
The meaningful questions…
And over is the correct answer, of course.
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Can I bum a cig?
When I die my first question to the Devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?
— Wolfgang Pauli
Does everything in this world have an answer?
I would probably ask the question to whoever give this option to me. Probably something like "Tell me about yourself in the most detailed way".
"What is every number each under 1 sextillion?" bouta buy me a little time
Why not 69 sextillion
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I feel like it would probably be something about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. That thing is really annoying.
Although I feel I might get stuck in a recursive answer if I ask the wrong thing. So maybe I would ask something about a loved one, that I already know the answer to.