My science fiction philosophy is that much of human thought is more like interacting with an objective, shared thought universe with other humans (living and de

My science fiction philosophy is that much of human thought is more like interacting with an objective, shared thought universe with other humans (living and dead) as well as gods and angels and stuff. As opposed to brains firing based on physical perception. Most of the scare of recent AI is about how it’s a big brain model therefore it will overtake us. This falls apart in my model, which is that we have little brains which see the thought universe, and that’s where most of the interesting stuff goes on. For AI to be even on par with humans, it’s not enough to simulate a brain. The computers would need a transmitter for talking to angels and dead humans, which they clearly don’t have. Even if a ChatGPT co-opts human input in real-time as a proxy to the thought universe, it’s not clear to me what the boundaries in this thought universe are for automation. Even in the physical universe we are severely lagging behind natural technology in many ways-can’t make cell sized machines, or new world level environments to live in. Stuff that we have that we can’t make artificial replacements of. The thought universe should have similar practical difficulties. Anyways, technology such as writing, radio, internet aren’t much different than ChatGPT in this sense. A new lens into the thought universe, but not itself capable of interacting with it apart from humans.