This paper develops the philosophical companion to V01.01 — Mirror Theory I. Mirror Theory I treated observerhood as a derived computational regime of bounded viability-constrained systems. The present paper asks what follows if observerhood is not primitive, but derived. It examines how familiar philosophical questions change when the observer is reconstructed as a stable recursive organisation rather than assumed as a basic substance, subject or point of view. The paper considers identity, persistence, death, mathematics, time, symbols, matter, meaning, realism, physicalism and objectivity under the assumption that observerhood is reconstructed as maintained recursive organisation. It argues that many classical philosophical questions shift from asking what observers are made of to asking what kinds of organised constraint systems can become observers. This release forms part of the Theory Arc of Mirror Programme, Volume I: Observerhood.
Lloyd Christopher Smith (Thu,) studied this question.