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The tricky part is you can ask similar questions about the human brain. Are our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions really "new", or just deterministic transfor
by danenania 4y ago
The tricky part is you can ask similar questions about the human brain. Are our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions really "new", or just deterministic transformations based on our genetics and sensory input? We don't know exactly how our brains do computation, but it's definitely possible that what looks and feels like creativity to us is really, under the hood, just as statistical and mechanistic as an LLM.
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoI agree with much of what you said except the use of the word "just". Chaos theory just happens to be deterministic. And life is most assuredly chaotic. In fact it was equations related to populations of living things that lead to the discovery of chaos theory. (equations wrt the weather also helped) [1] So I'd make your statement: Our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions are really really irreducibly new. They are (deterministic-)chaotic transformations based on our genetics and sensory input. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Introduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Introduction