What if the fundamental nature of reality is a timeless ocean where every possible bundle of qualia - first person sensory experiences - exists within it? Time doesn’t actually exist, but the illusion of it could, as bundles could have false memories and expectations.

  • juliebean@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    isn’t this just ‘brain in a jar’ and ‘last thursdayism’ blended up together and brought to a boil? this is some high-octane new-age hadalpelagic pseudocosmological nonsense. well done!

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    What measurable difference would exist between that world and a more constrained one, that would make it significant to know we’re in one vs the other?