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What makes us “real”? Has evolution built in prompts like “distort your face and shed tears when in pain to evoke a social network response” into our model? Ano
by novalis78 3y ago
What makes us “real”? Has evolution built in prompts like “distort your face and shed tears when in pain to evoke a social network response” into our model?
Another fascinating observation is the Buddha’s main philosophical view of “an-atta” or soullessness of the human experience and that “we” are under a self-delusion. Even consciousness (or vi-ññāna) as it gets translated in his particular context was the ability to discriminate/discern on a per sense basis (imagine each sense base coming with its own GPT model).
In a meta cognitive moment I’d like to thank everyone in this thread for their thoughtful ideas, observations and insights!
- FredPret 3y agoIf consciousness means the ability to discern what our senses tell us, then a light-switch is minimally conscious, being able to discriminate between two states. A CPU is further along on that spectrum, a human brain still further. I wonder where ChatGPT lies.