What if the fundamental nature of reality is a timeless ocean where every possible bundle of qualia - first person sensory experiences - exists within it? Time doesn’t actually exist, but the illusion of it could, as bundles could have false memories and expectations.
Can you expand on what you mean by that? As I thought, the scientific method was about empirically testing things, and the empirical world is defined by what we can sense - ie our qualia.
My understanding is that qualia are how a “consciousness” experiences something, and I disagree with the notion of a consciousness being a definable thing in general. It’s not a scientific meaning so you can never unambiguously talk about anything in the context of qualia.
Ok, maybe you’re not conscious then. I know that I am.