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In Karl Popper's Three Worlds' view of reality: there are three worlds that he presupposes exists: World 1: objective, physical reality; the material universe. It includes everything we consider part of the known natural sciences: physical objects, biological, chemical processes, and every known and unknown observable phenomena. It exists independent of us World 2: subjective human experience; individual thoughts, emotions, consciousness, and perceptions. The conscious and the unconscious. This includes our inner mental states, what makes us us - who we think we are, the stories we tell ourselves and others World 3: objective knowledge; these are theories, scientific concepts, mathematical structures, language, literature, art , the arts in general, cultural artifacts, and institutions. World 3 contains the products of human thought that exist independently of any single person’s experience, as they are accessible and interpretable by others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper%27s_three_worlds

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One of the things that's interesting about this is that World 3 is embodied or observed a posteriori from World 1. World 2 is going to be uniquely subjective for each and every one of us. Our experiences differ, who we are and what we think. World 1 is going to continue to exist long after we are gone, and it seems like it has existed way before we existed (we as in humanity) I think that puts World 3 in a unique place. It is a uniquely objective embodied apparatus of humanity that allows us to leverage World 1 in ways. That's what I think often discovery about scientific knowledge is about - it's about finding laws and build tools that allow us to keep cracking the code of World 1

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also gets perhaps why none of these can be the whole story. 1. just is, with seemingly no awareness, as awareness can only happen via a self reflective model and the models in 2 and 3 are forever limited. one wonders if one day we may know enough to begin our own 1 based on simple rules such as wolfram physics, and thus the reproduction of universes continues.

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or perhaps that’s the job of the ubermensch of AI that can self reflect on much more and in a sense embody the models of 3.

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