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Consciousness is the inflection upon the potential of existential being. Literally life technology animating the quantum sieve within our neurons. Consciousness
by illuminant 2y ago
Consciousness is the inflection upon the potential of existential being. Literally life technology animating the quantum sieve within our neurons. Consciousness isn't a complex deck of cards, it is the singularity inside the quantum sieve.
Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty it is not intelligence. All that other stuff about more or faster or sophisticated is something else. obviously we're describing a scalar domain. Your expectations overload and out leverage the simple truths.
This may be the moment to evaluate our questions.
- apantel 2y agoEven an LLM couldn’t generate this.
- illuminant 2y agoInformation is the removal of uncertainty, if it does not remove uncertainty it is not information. Uncertainty is the soft synonym for entropy. Entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential. It is not that Truth is impossible to find, it is that undeceiving the self is difficult. Undeceive yourself of your own words if you will find something you have not anticipated.
- maxbond 2y agoWhat about if I think I know something and then realize I don't? Didn't I receive information that increased my uncertainty?
- illuminant 2y agoWhen you do a math or logic problem you would intuitively use parentheses, allowing the problem to be split into scopes. Use parentheses in your mind and then regard where uncertainty is increased and where it is decreased. In nearly every circumstance, new information will generate MORE questions. To the untrained mind this may sound like more uncertainty, however in actuality you did not know what questions to ask until some preliminary uncertainty was resolved. For one scope, uncertainty is resolved, in doing so new domains are revealed. Uncertainty (or information for that matter) isn't a lump sum that grows or shrinks. One question is resolved revealing more separate and further uncertainties, which are very specific and reduced from chaotic infinity by some resolve . In this case, realizing you didn't actually know that "something" to begin with. The tendency to jumble these delicate distinctions into a single glob of unknowns obfuscates otherwise simple (however numerous) truths. And by "truth" I mean, anything consistent with existential reality.
- maxbond 2y agoIt's an interesting perspective. I understand that the language choices they made were strong and thus not for everyone, but I don't see a reason to be rude about it. If it didn't make any sense to you it's probably because you didn't find it worth your time to parse it out, or similarly that there was unfamiliar terminology you didn't judge it worth your time to look up. That's fine, but that's a choice you made, no sense blaming them for it.