Bugs are people too you know. :grin: I concur. But i think that since we will be part of its body, it will consider us part of its local sphere of car...
One piece of advice i can give you at the moment is to start with your own natural curiosity. Be clear on what specifically you want to know, and begi...
No Actually, i think consciousness is fundamentally structured with intelligent components. This is why we can have intelligent machines or artificial...
I vaguely remember reading or watching a video about that. It's very interesting, the role that viruses play in our evolution. I also recall reading a...
For me, it comes down to: Can it suffer? If it can suffer, then don't do it. If it can't, then if you must, do so. If you see a roach in the street, l...
It might very well be that humans are tools of gut bacteria. Furthermore, bacteria themselves might be tools of something even deeper and more fundame...
This is a graph of description 2 (I've simply removed the edges for the non-relavent components): https://i.imghippo.com/files/wtoVI1729466192.png And...
Thank you, but i still believe we are talking about the same thing. The way i have defined consciousness allows for two perspectives. Essentially, the...
Pardon me, i'll try to clarify. If I find and examine a system that has a specific type of pattern with a boundary that isolates and contains it from ...
Ok i'll try: Consciousness can be understood through the lens of simulation. Our first-person consciousness is our internal self-simulation, while our...
Life is simply a system that maintains its own homeostatic state. It doesn't even need to be conscious. It simply needs to have intelligent components...
Consciousness is a property of a sufficiently complex system capable of self-simulation. A conscious system, in order to be conscious, must be able to...
The Verve - One Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW7uuP8D2s The Verve - Already There https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN1GKEK5cFE The Verve - A Ma...
Apparently so, thus far. That AI is utterly dependent on humans or anything else does not preclude it from being a life form. Nothing is an island unt...
Where is AI heading? My current big picture working hypothesis: AI is the tree that will bear the fruit of life and immortality on this planet. It is ...
I strongly suspect that the attention mechanism is the seed for complex consciousness in AI systems. Perhaps the current attention mechanisms, or the ...
I do have ideas (or, as you might put it, "playing with ideas") about the ultimate substance of the universe. However, I'm not done sculpting the conc...
Even when you look at the naked face of Mona Lisa with your very own eyes, all you get is a representation in your mind. A mental picture, a painting ...
It's quite easy in most cases to determine the substance of an emergent layer of reality. For example, the substance of a cell is the molecule. Molecu...
Yes, but not only is all understanding 'constructing', but any reality (real or false) is also a construction. Every reality is constructed, and thus ...
"big history" is a great enemy for the Libertarians among us hahaha. — AmadeusD What do you mean, or why? Just curious." Disregard the question, i und...
I'll certainly take a look at the links you provided. Thank you. It's 3:40 am here right now, i've made my bed and will now lay in it. Good night for ...
I'm sure you know this already but.. The problem is with words and language. Some ideas are pretty concrete and can be readily understood, yet not alw...
The phrase "from scratch" refers to creating something from the very beginning, using basic or raw materials, rather than relying on pre-made componen...
The sentiment is mutual. I came to this conclusion through simple imagination and logic. In my mind's eye, i placed myself at the center of absolute e...
I totally agree, i've tried to describe this concept of time before, but with little success. Perhaps you can do better than i have. :up: I believe i ...
Before using a bottleneck abstraction layer, you should probably develop some kind of function or algorithm that determines the maximum number of feat...
Sometimes when i encounter issues like this, i "reboot" the session. I start a new thread in order to clear any data it has in its context window (cha...
Yeah, these things are not "perfect" yet; remember, they're still babies. But they grow up so quickly! You should say, "This is amazing! I can see you...
You can try asking a text-based AI to optimize your image prompt. Explain the problem you're experiencing with the image results and request that it o...
We are still an imperfect species, and our knowledge of things will remain imperfect for that reason. I never said that we would reach a state of perf...
I have come to this conclusion: in principle, the whole of the universe can be understood to an almost god-like degree. Mankind, now in its present st...
Nirvana - Something In The Way (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VxdufqB9zg Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In The Pines) HQ https://...
Some of my thoughts on existence: A thing comes into existence from non-existence at a certain point in time and returns to non-existence at another f...
I'm happy to admit my ignorance, but it is my ignorance that compels me to know. I don't give up so easily. One thing i do know just for myself is tha...
That's ok... i'm kinda used to it anyway. You don't have to keep trying if you don't want. I appreciate the effort. I suspect that the collapse of the...
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