[breatheoften]

I recently reread the classic book “Permutation City” by Greg Egan which hinges on the ability to believe that consciousness can be said to exist within a completely deterministic (no true entropy) system.

The book itself is amazing but I’ve been sitting with this idea for awhile now and am becoming increasingly convinced that what we call consciousness might require entropy for us to recognize it as such ... in a way — if we believe that consciousness requires probability, then might we subsequently lose the ability to believe in any state of existence where probability played no role ...?