There's a greater than 50 % probability we're living in inasimulation. The mind does not operate eon statistics. It is not a basian machine. If you accept the journey of the mind, and the mathematical view of consciousness as an activity, then it is not. Both statistics and computer science would assume that our mind has fixed states that interact through fixed probabilities. This is not how the mind works. There are no fixed states. The mind is constantly creating new states. A state in the mind, it could be a zero. It could be one at the same time. Entirely talking about them in terms of states or zeros and ones, does not apply
Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.
Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.