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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 01:19:46 JST Rich Felker

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   @lritter You can extend the boundary of what you consider self arbitrarily, but that doesn't change how signals propagate and how sensors work.

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     LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 01:19:48 JST LR

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     Illusion of Separation: It sounds like a dis/provable proposition. If it is an illusion, you should theoretically then be able to extend the boundary of self and gain greater cognitive perception and influence; or, going the other way, limit your sense of self further and lose control over some of your limbs. But I have never heard of such things occurring. Hence I believe Separation is no illusion at all, but fact, and any experience of greater or smaller consciousness is in fact the illusion.

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     LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 01:19:49 JST LR

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     It's the only thing that stops me from becoming a mathematical realist. I can't figure out how this is supposed to work.

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     LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 01:19:50 JST LR

     if you're asking me, having your consciousness located *precisely* within a single body, forced to experience everything that exists only through this transient interface, with no mathematical explanation of how that is even *remotely logically possible*, is mighty suspicious. something doesn't add up here.

     and sometimes it feels like reality does a lot of hullabaloo to distract you from this tiny but fundamental logical incongruity.