Annaka Harris
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Apr 2025
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objects in nature that exist that are not just mathematical structures that we can think about, but any mathematical structure that comes out of the math actually exists in reality.
And so when I think about consciousness being fundamental,
I think about physics and mathematics being a description of the structure of it.
And that when mathematicians say things like that, or physicists say things like that, it makes sense if we're talking about a conscious experience of some sort.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right, currently.
I mean, maybe permanently, but I remain optimistic.
Oh, I see.
So, I mean, this answer is slightly different or very different depending on whether I kind of follow the assumption that consciousness emerges at some point in physical processing or whether it's fundamental since I've just chosen to stay on the fundamental channel.
I mean, then it's kind of a silly answer because if consciousness is fundamental in the way I currently think about it, the only way I imagine it working, every physical thing we perceive is a representation of a conscious experience.
So, I mean, yes, it's true of everything in the world.
However, I would say if that's the case,
Even though there's a way in which it's behaving in similar ways to a human being, the way it's constructed, what it is actually made of, and the physics of it is so different that I would expect it to have an entirely, completely non-human conscious experience.
And whether it even feels like a self, I think, would be a big question mark.
It's the only way you can suffer is in a consciousness.
I would say, I mean, just on my own use of these words, suffering is only something that can happen in a conscious experience.
Anything that has a conscious experience can experience suffering, yes.
Yeah, I mean, this is not an area that I have spent, for me, I have not spent a lot of time thinking about this.
Most people expect that I have.
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