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This is beautifully executed. Game of Life must be the first simulation I ever took on as a programmer — and have revisited it over the years. To this day it
by gdubs 3y ago
This is beautifully executed.
Game of Life must be the first simulation I ever took on as a programmer — and have revisited it over the years.
To this day it continues to come up in my mind when people muse about things like consciousness. Is there a magic dust to us? Or are we the result of simple rules playing out in a grand stage?
- anvandare 3y agoAs the laws of physics do not seem to stop at the borders of a skull, there is no sovereignty of the Self. But no one minds a thought thinking itself its own thinker, as there is no one at all. Just a thought.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness > As the laws of physics do not seem to stop at the borders of a skull There doesn't need to be a magic dust for consciousness, it could still be a primitive compatible with existing physics. See what Roger Penrose worked on.
- Nevermark 3y agoOr not a primitive but just emergent phenomena. I.e. an intelligent computing engine which learns to model both its environment and itself, with some degree of access and control of its internal processes including when it considers itself. At the point of clear, continuous practical self-awareness, how could it not be “conscious”? It will experience it’s self’s awareness of it’s self-awareness.
- mistermann 3y agoCognitive services are disabled (or have bugs injected) when consciousness is pointed at itself.
- voiceblue 3y agoYou might enjoy watching the emergent behavior in the execution of this 256 byte program - a mind is born [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
- shkkmo 3y agoOr are the simple rules themselves the "magic dust". These turing complete structures show up everywhere and are in many ways equivalent. Perhaps this underlying structure is the foundation of our metaphysics and our reality is just one node of it's permutative potentiality. The simple rules of GoL are just an emergent reflection of the fundemental nature of meta-reality. These types of relfections within our neural and semantic structures may be the necessary "magic dust" for consciousness to emerge.