One of the most amazing things about OUR existence is the distributed sentience of billions of sentient beings that regulate OUR world...how do these different loci of distributed sentience keep together a coordinated COMMON world...loci of physical vantage points, loci of mental worlds, loci of agency, all need to hold everything together...even that we have a COMMON world is a miracle every moment!
A beautiful book that ponders the billions of sentient vantage points and their reconciliation into an 'objective' world is Thomas Nagel's The View From Nowhere. The diagram that Nagel comes up with is a series of concentric circles, that provide more and more inclusive 'viewpoints' as you move away from a center. The real challenge is to model both the interpenetration of the worlds of sentient beings as well as their inclusivity in each other's perceptions.
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