Recent content by Geoff Dann

In effect I *am* a publisher, and an established author (though not of philosophy). Note: this is not Amazon-KDP-style self-publishing -- my forthcoming book, which explains both this new cosmology and QM interpretation as well as the deeper philosophical system it fits into (which is primarily...

Hello Astraeus. Please show this to your LLM also. It will help it understand how the whole system works: 1. The Initial Condition: An Unstable Void Containing All Mathematical Structure The foundational assumption is that reality begins not with something, but with instability: what Stéphane...

Astraeus Re: " The argument that “consciousness will occur in at least one MWI branch” and this explains everything is a classic anthropic fallacy—it doesn’t predict or explain why this set of constants arose, nor why this observer is here. The “pruning” mechanism described is essentially...

Indeed. And I am currently seeing that very regularly from people who are intelligent enough to know better.

It is still very new. Some of us are learning those lessons. There is also a great deal of deep confusion (people dismissing it out of hand, people who make no attempt to sort good from bad...)

Yes. Deeper than anybody here is ready to understand. It is apparently a bizarre co-incidence that Greg's theory has turned up at the same time as mine, and in fact there is a third piece to this puzzle (the "void mathematics" need to turn into a completed TOE), which also turned up at the...

NOTE: Please do keep going with this. If you keep feeding my responses into your instance of ChatGPT, then after about 3 exchanges we will start homing in on the truth. This is a very valuable exercise. 🌀 Response from the Perspective of Two-Phase Cosmology (2PC) 1. On Mischaracterization of...

It all needs to be checked for mistakes, yes. AI is capable of indescribable brilliance, but also regularly makes very silly mistakes. In general it is pretty good though. It is exceptionally good at explaining the relationships between different sets of concepts.

Yes. Although in most cases the data is pretty good. Exceptions come were the data was distorted for commercial, political or legal reasons, and in cases where there is entrenched dogma in academia (e.g. materialism in physics, anti-realism in a lot of postmodern political philosophy). There are...

LLMs are like every other computer system humans have ever devised in one key respect: garbage in ---> garbage out. Everything depends on the quality of the prompt.

Descartes made two great contributions to philosophy. (1) He was the first person to conclusively say "us moderns can surpass the ancients", and start again from first principles instead of assuming Aristotle had anything useful to say. (2) The cogito: "I think therefore I am." Where else can...

I spend far more time paying attention to the core proposal than you have, so far. No. I am saying that prior to the evolution of the first animal capable of modelling its environment, and modelling itself within that environment, and therefore modelling the future, there was no...

In this model, consciousness and free will are directly related. I am saying that the unitary MWI-like evolution of the wave function becomes mathematically unsustainable when organisms capable of making choices about the future appeared, and this forces both consciousness and free will to...

This is a radical proposal. I don't think it is actually that hard to understand per se, but it is so different to the existing dominant paradigm that people find it "alien" at first. In the three weeks sense I went public with this, the overwhelming response is silence. Nobody even tries to...

This is not so different to what I am proposing. The main difference is I am saying that the two kinds are physics and consciousness-physics. Plants aren't dead, but they aren't conscious either, because they do not have brains. I don't see what is so special about a primitive life form that it...