Philosophical Speculations

What do you really think of Horgan's Mind-Body Problem antisolution? Scientific journalism can't find someone better to cover consciousness?

I've yet to see anyone who doesn't think this is the best possible physical world, or even a good one, demonstrate the superiority of another in the string landscape.

Omniscience isn't necessary, just the capability of extrapolating of billions of years of googolplexes of possible worlds.

True cosmic fine-tuning is the parameters to create technologically advanced civilization, more than mere consciousness or life. There's also noetic fine-tuning, the unexpected and unexplainable features of consciousness beyond bare awareness.

By performance, I mean performing for oneself as much as for others.

The simplest evolution of a non-metacognitive subject into a universe probably includes evolution into an intermediate "omniscient" subject.

Even BK admits he doesn't have a solution to cosmic fine-tuning. Describe how a non-metacognitive entity evolves to produce this universe, accept a meta-cognitive subject with sufficient knowledge, or embrace the infinitely infinite Multiverse.

I've realized it's more efficient to report character counts only when they exceed 280.

Appearing "instinctive" (physical simulation) might have been the only option other than eternal loneliness.

Why couldn't a meta-cognitive subject decide to appear instinctive?