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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 days agoour consciousness should be in a state of non-existence
Sounds like you’re speaking of the Fermi Paradox, and some related things.
But just because the existence of our consciousness is improbable doesn’t mean you can conclude that it’s literally impossible.
You also seem to be connecting a lot of ideas under the assumption that a human ‘point of view’ is necessarily unique… I think this article touches on a lot of your ideas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
And, indeed, the bias of a human-centric viewpoint is a huge issue in science and an ongoing point of debate, as seen above.
Mander@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m not saying it is literally impossible, but we can’t ignore just how improbable reality tells us it is. Those odds pretty much indicate a certainty, but even if they didn’t my point still stands. That point being that there’s already a very compelling case for the simulation theory which does not involve my hypothesis. So now when you bring that hypothesis to the table, it significantly bolsters it, like an experiment that supports the thesis with a failure rate so low it’s not observable. So the real question is, do you think a simulation is more unlikely than the odds of your consciousness existing in the present moment?