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comment by chaosmage · 2018-10-28T17:30:20.522Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That sounds a *lot* like http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/01/the-hour-i-first-believed/ .

It does not sound a lot like any existing variant of Panpsychism. Since the word isn't doing any work here, I suggest you do without it.

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comment by mako yass (MakoYass) · 2018-10-28T21:08:41.647Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
That sounds a *lot* like http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/01/the-hour-i-first-believed/ .

It's a genre. I sort of hope we never actually give rise to any simulist religions that people come to earnestly believe in, but we probably will. Most of those religions wont be true. Some of them might be. I don't know.

It does not sound a lot like any existing variant of Panpsychism

Not sure what you mean. Disambiguate "it"? The presented theory (Concentrated Existence) is not something I would call panpsychism. It might be implied by panpsychism. It should still have its own name.

comment by mako yass (MakoYass) · 2018-10-28T21:23:48.580Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The thing I'm most unsure about here is the giving so much attention to the reference class {alive or intelligent}'s relationship with anthropic measure, to the extent of treating that relationship as an anomaly that needs to be explained. If you have one data point about the class of red things, "Golg is Red", and you know nothing about redness aside from that, does it really make sense to start making guesses about what is making Golg Red? Golg has the worst breath, should we then guess that Golg's bad breath is what makes Golg Red? How confident should we be?

It seems notable that the thing we know to have anthropic measure is human. The reasons we associate humanness, intelligence or aliveness with that anthropic measure, though, do not seem entirely legit. It seems conspicuous that the thing we consider to have anthropic measure happens to also be the only thing that can loudly claim to have it.