Sleeping Beauty Paradox

[Carleas]

@Ichthus77

And how do they know which one they are? Is that what the paradox is about? Is it a brain in the vat thing?

Yeah, brain-in-a-vat is the idea.

I agree that, when you’re talking about existence, it’s not very meaningful to ask whether we live in a simulation/matrix/vat. But I think the distinction between reality and simulation is meaningful if only as analogy, a relationship between the brain-in-the-vat and the person standing beside the vat. It’s coherent to ask if there’s a metaphorical person-standing-beside-our-vat. Maybe that is God for you?

@Ichthus77

So how long from the “membering” (actual experience of the present/presence) does it become pre-/post-/remembering?

Most of it. My understanding is that conscious experience happens after a lot of the processing our brain does. Rather than experiencing what is happening right now, our experience is a coherent whole stitched together from patchy and misaligned sense data. Our minds fill in gaps, blur edges, true up timing, drop irrelevant data, etc. So experiencing is not too different from remembering.

Definitely the kind of thinking that can crack a person up!

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

This is an argument against absolute skepticism or strong skepticism. You can’t know you were wrong about something unless you know you were right. We can distinguish between what we notice in mediate hindsight and immediate membering because we know we are right. We don’t need to have immediate membering 100% in order to know we are right. We are always “outside” the vat of that brain-in-itself. Which is actually inside it.

Brain screws just went ¡boi-oi-oing!