> What does "non-experience" even mean?
Indeed, that's why putting meaningless arbitrarily defined touchy-feely words in physics is a bad idea. But I'll try.
Experience = event that changes the model of the world you have in your brain. We can verify it experimentally by for example:
- testing if you associate a loud buzz with food before the experiment (either by looking at neurons that activate when you think of food or by looking at saliva production)
- repeatedly giving you food after buzzing
- testing again if you associate a loud buzz with food
We can deduce from that change that your internal model of the world changed to associate "buzz" with "food" so you experienced our experiment.
This isn't a definition I will defend because I don't think such definitions are that important in the first place.
Now I don't think a stone has internal model of the world, and even if it does - I don't see how can it change. But I cannot experimentally test it :)
Indeed, that's why putting meaningless arbitrarily defined touchy-feely words in physics is a bad idea. But I'll try.
Experience = event that changes the model of the world you have in your brain. We can verify it experimentally by for example:
- testing if you associate a loud buzz with food before the experiment (either by looking at neurons that activate when you think of food or by looking at saliva production)
- repeatedly giving you food after buzzing
- testing again if you associate a loud buzz with food
We can deduce from that change that your internal model of the world changed to associate "buzz" with "food" so you experienced our experiment.
This isn't a definition I will defend because I don't think such definitions are that important in the first place.
Now I don't think a stone has internal model of the world, and even if it does - I don't see how can it change. But I cannot experimentally test it :)