r/PhilosophyofScience

Are mirrors showing you how you look, or just how light behaves around you?

Like what if?

The basic idea is this; by being a living, breathing organism you increase the amount of decoherence events (more-so than being an inert object). Decoherence events trigger branching. More branching means more conscious minds. If the universe contains more suffering than pleasure, you’re essentially fabricating more realities where suffering dominates. The scope of it is what’s really mind-boggling; even by moving your finger you might fabricate a near infinite amount of conscious experience that wouldn’t exist otherwise. I haven’t settled on an answer here.