Societies of mind in virtual reality

[anhinga_anhinga]

Assume that we do live in a virtual reality, as Nick Bostrom suggests:
http://anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com/8017.html
Also assume Marvin Minsky's theory that a person is a Society of Mind.

Thinking about possible ways to implement a reality containing persons as societies of mind and assuming limited computational resources, it seems quite likely that the societies of mind of different people would share a lot of common mental processes, and that the overlap is higher between people, who interact a lot or share common history.

Among other things, this would shed some light onto mysterious instances of synchronicity -- interaction via shared subprocesses would be one of the possible reasons.

Comments

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

> but if we go to "generally unexplained", let us also include situations when you "feel somebody is watching you, turn around and bingo". btw, yesterday friend of mine shared some amasing stories about prophetic dreams, hard to discard the evidence.

Indeed..