Where are your one year before you are born

Where are you one year before you are born? Splitting it into two parts: where are your atoms and where is the description of your computational system (brain architecture and such). Atoms: for the most part, you are plants and animals that your parents are going to eat, either in a field growing or in storage awaiting consumption. Some atoms will come straight out of your parents (mostly mother) so a small collection of your atoms and just still embedded in your mother and father. Computational system: this doesn't exist yet but it's going to be constructed based on genetics and environment. So mother and father are holding the innate architecture of your brain in DNA. They are also having experiences that will shape them, and their personality (along with the baby sitters, etc.) will shape your personality (your computational system). So in summary, you are plants, animals, stray atoms in your parents, and thoughts and experiences of all the people who will shape your environment.

One moment of consciousness

Universe gives you one moment of consciousness and you have as fun fun with it as possible

Suppose you wanted to predict completely accurately the consequences of actions rather than using simple laws

Suppose you wanted to predict completely accurately the consequences of actions rather than using simple laws. Like predict should this person be put in jail or not because he's suspected of committing a crime. Old justice systems didn't use rules at all, people just decided. Then we started encoding decisions into rules. The next level might be more complex models, like neural networks. The most accurate would be full prediction.

To avoid pain, like other people being hurt by the same potential criminal, the objective is to predict the future actions of the individual perfectly, day by day, second by second. For perfect prediction, a perfect simulation would be needed. However truly simulating people means recreating them. At this level of simulation accuracy the pain of the simulation would be just as real as the pain in reality. So the simulation would not be helpful in modeling outcomes and reducing pain.

Clam

A clam is a living sentient tongue. How would it feel to be a tongue.