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When you perceive yourself sitting inside space and enduring through time, you’re actually seeing yourself as an icon inside your own data structure.
Perhaps some geek, in another world, gets her kicks creating and controlling us and our world. That geek and her world might in turn be the digital plaything of a geek in a lower-level world.
An agent simply lacks the resources to experience all the experiences of all the agents in its instantiation, even though those agents contribute to its very self.
evolutionary theory explains, that we reason best when we argue for an idea that we already believe, or against the idea of another that we
We did not evolve our ability to reason in order to pursue the truth. We evolved it as a tool of social persuasion.
