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The universe indeed is not intelligent. Nor do these creatures know what they are doing. Nor did evolution know what it was doing when it created them -- evolut
by jibal 3y ago
The universe indeed is not intelligent. Nor do these creatures know what they are doing. Nor did evolution know what it was doing when it created them -- evolution is not an agent or even an entity, its a description of a natural process of highly constrained brute force trial and error.
With a proper scientific and biological education these things are neither alien nor incomprehensible and the numerous conceptual errors above can be avoided.
- jibal 3y agoP.S. Both of the responses include additional conceptual errors (or worse: bad faith). e.g. one can always find someone with credentials (often irrelevant, as here) on YouTube in support of one's beliefs. And as for "If you treat it as if it's is you get the exact same result though" -- this simply isn't true -- not yet, anyway. And if it ever is true, one would need extreme justification to claim the AI isn't conscious. In any case, this has nothing to do with whether the universe is intelligent--after all, we already know that it contains intelligent creatures (surely some humans are).
- hackeraccount 3y agoThis reminds me of an AI that passes the Turing test. Of course it's not conscious. If you treat it as if it's is you get the exact same result though. At some point the similarities between the metaphor "the Universe is intelligent" and the actual Universe are so small that there are effectively no conceptual errors.
- AltruisticGapHN 3y agoWell some very, very smart people would seem to disagree. Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman says fundamental physics is consciousness, spacetime is doomed and everything we know about physics is wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVH8WhgBXCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVH8WhgBXCk You're part of the old guard :)