Physics and consciousness
Three questions I keep returning to. (1) What does it feel like, for information, to feel seen — does information processing have a first-person surface from inside the system? (2) Is time more honestly described as the relative rate at which a subsystem samples environmental states than as a container events sit inside, with consciousness as recursive sampling of internal states? (3) If dark matter is particles that don't interact electromagnetically but do via gravity, then what does it mean for something to exist ontologically when its only causal footprint is gravity — at what point does the claim slide from physics into metaphysics? No deliverable; these are notes from trying to think clearly about each.