The Impossibility of Imagining a Description

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There is a linguistic thing going on where you're choosing to describe what happens in the world in terms of your first person experience. So it's not that it replaces the particles and fields, or the particles ad fields replace your experience. It says there are two different ways of talking about the same thing. And i have zero problem imagining that a bunch of particles in fields would do that. I don't see what the obstacle is. You know, our imaginations might not up to the task.

Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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