Say, let’s admit consciousness is the result of a physical process.
Then say this process only goes “forward” when our time coordinate increases. Just like an egg gets cooked when it’s temperature coordinate increases, but it doesn’t get more or less cooked when it’s temperature coordinate decreases.
This would mean that going back in time doesn’t result in any perceptible change, since your consciousness hasn’t evolved from it’s “former” state.
Thus making it possible for us to be travelling through plenty of dimensions in varied directions, only ever experiencing the brief times when you happen to be moving in increasing time. Or whatever combination of movement along varied dimensions makes it possible for you to be conscious.
TLDR: i need to take shorter showers
Are you suggesting that consciousness is the only science that has to contend with extreme skeptical scenarios?
It’s the only one that I can think of that might actually matter from an ethical point of view as ai approaches the appearance what could be considered consciousness. What else are you thinking about that relates?
There are certainly more ethical implications to the science of consciousness than there are to other sciences, but I feel like that’s a different discussion
Yes, but that’s the only reason it really matters at all. It’s inherently unprovable and unknowable so there nothing to do any science on. It’s philosophy or meta physics, which is great, but cannot be definitive.