I haven't read the article myself yet as it's big and I haven't got time now, but I will as it looks like it might be very good. However, if you read just the very first paragraph you'll see that's exactly what the author thinks:
> Personally, I consider myself a physicalist, but I’m also a panpsychist – because physics doesn’t really seem to deal in hard absolutes, and I find it straightforward to consider that everything is conscious to some greater or lesser degree
Time for a thought experiment! Imagine there are 2 monkeys. One monkey genuinely believes it is a unique and special being. The other monkey is genuinely egoless, believes all monkeys are just a coincidental blob of matter with no fundamental claim to being special and that in some sense are all part of the same being. There is enough food for 1 monkey. If that is all the information we're getting, I would contend that the egotistical monkey is far more likely to be the one to eat the food.
You might easily be you because if you weren't it'd be an evolutionary dead end. Everything with the ability to make choices ahs to believe at some level that it has more of a right to exist than the systems they consume energy more.
Everything with the ability to make choices ahs to believe at some level that it has more of a right to exist than the systems they consume energy more.
Not necessarily.
Everything has a "right to exist". Otherwise, it probably wouldn't.
Everything that exists has not only a "right" but also a "requirement" to consume energy from the universe in order to survive.
Sometimes, the only way to meet this "requirement" is to exclude others from doing the same.
Doing so doesn't necessarily make you any better or worse than others. Any more than the universe is good or bad for creating you with an instinct and a "requirement" for survival.
Bottom line: Being egotistical doesn't mean you are better able to survive, it just means you are more arrogant and delusional about doing so. Personally, I believe the universe favors reality over delusion.
Each consciousness is a universe on its own. Matter is just how those universes interact with each other. This is how quantum mechanics work in my idea, each observer affects the matter and quantum effects take most probable outcomes because of that.
this turned out to be a _crop_ of a much longer talk (https://bigthink.com/the-well/physics-doesnt-explain-the-uni...) that included interesting references to a TOE based on computation, something called the Ruliad, etc. that was pretty interesting IMO but this crop is pretty lame it seems like zoomed into the couple of bits that mentioned AI and pulled it out of context and without the context it's just bleh
What is happening with other bookies is not really relevant. All a bookie really cares about are the bets on his books.
As long as the bets are roughly the same on each side (money wise), the bookies work is done. All he has to do is take from the losers and give to the winners --- and take a nice cut for himself.
I never built this to bet, just for fun, always liked statistics and sports. In the end, better to invest your money in stock market and leave it there, than to think you can make a living out of betting.
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