🌌宇宙被认为是无限的，从某种意义上说，原子的每种可能组合都被无限次重复，这可能是由于宇宙的负曲率意味着它是无界的，或者是因为多世界诠释（MWI）

🧠意识被视为一种原子现象，现在的自己与过去的自己的特殊关系在于现在的自己记得过去的自己，而梦境中的‘意识的自己’与清醒的自己没有特殊的联系或记忆

🤔作者认为在梦境中，在宇宙的某个地方，可能存在一个真正的人正在经历与自己的梦境完全相同的意识体验（但这个人是清醒的），并思考梦境是否可能成为现实

Published on August 22, 2024 12:41 PM GMT

Suppose you believe the following:

the universe is infinite in the sense that every possible combination of atoms is repeated an infinite number of times (either because the negative curvature of the universe implies the universe is unbounded or because of MWI)Consciousness is an atomic phenomena^[1]. That is to say, the only special relationship between past-you and present you is that present you remembers being past you.

In this case, we seem to get something similar to "dust" in Greg Egan's Permutation City, where any sequence of events leading to the present you having your present memories could be considered the "real you".

However, the "conscious you" of your dreams does not have any special attachment or memory to the waking you.  That is to say at least sometimes when I'm dreaming (that I am driving a car or falling off a cliff or whatever) I am not also thinking "but this is all a dream and I will wake up soon".

Together, this seems to imply that when I dream there is (somewhere in the universe) a real person who is having the exact same conscious experience as my dream (but is awake).  

Now, most of my dreams are fairly ridiculous, so I expect the "probability" that what I am dreaming is "real" is quite small (but not zero).

Maybe this is the same as Boltzmann Brains (where the probability is so small we just ignore it). But some of my dreams aren't that unrealistic.

So, the question is: does this imply that when I'm dreaming there is some probability that I never wake up and the dream me becomes the "real me"? If not, why not?

1. ^{^}

    Is there an official name for this theory? ChatGPT suggests "bundle theory" or "Momentariness", but both of those seem to have additional philosophical baggage attached