RourkeFri, Jan 25, 2008 I really like the metaphor you've expounded here. In the words of Max Velmans:
"While the world we experience is a representation that depends for its existence on human perceptual processing, the reality so represented does not." - Understanding Consciousness
The worlds minds construct co-exist with and yet are genuine alternatives to each other. I like to think that the closest model of fundamental reality available to us is the conglomerate expression of every possible mind in union. In this sense, each mind specialises in referring to its own special facet of reality, but to realise all reality's facets one needs an exponentially divergent curve of possible minds; one needs to take a cross section of all minds exist-ant, as well as all the minds which are possible.
The more types of mind which evolve, the better the conglomerate model of reality which is manifest amongst them.
And by the way, I tend not to agree with position number 6:
6. Possible Minds are causally isolated from each other.
i would hope that just by writing this comment my reality has fed somewhat into yours. There could never be a Space Collective if this condition held true.
I really like the metaphor you've expounded here. In the words of Max Velmans:
The worlds minds construct co-exist with and yet are genuine alternatives to each other. I like to think that the closest model of fundamental reality available to us is the conglomerate expression of every possible mind in union. In this sense, each mind specialises in referring to its own special facet of reality, but to realise all reality's facets one needs an exponentially divergent curve of possible minds; one needs to take a cross section of all minds exist-ant, as well as all the minds which are possible.
The more types of mind which evolve, the better the conglomerate model of reality which is manifest amongst them.
And by the way, I tend not to agree with position number 6:
i would hope that just by writing this comment my reality has fed somewhat into yours. There could never be a Space Collective if this condition held true.