REALITY FAQ

OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit.

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Why would a complete map of the world not tell me “I am here”?

A map can identify every person and place without connecting its reader to one particular entry. That missing relation is self-locating knowledge. OPH treats an observer's perspective as a real part of the world's organization: a record belongs to a particular continuing system and changes what that system does next. Knowing the description of an experience is likewise different from undergoing its occurrence. Mary can know a complete account of color vision before her own system first enacts seeing red. The claim is not that an impersonal description must omit all relational facts. It is that receiving a description and occupying the described position are different relations to the same world.

See also What does Mary learn when she first sees red?, How do I know other minds exist?, Is reality objective or subjective?

Also in Chapter 40: Does It Feel Like Anything, and What Is Left to Decide?.

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