Virtualism is just a bubble of abstraction within which patterns are perceived, causal links are deduced, relations between causal structures are found, and contextual dependencies are integrated, and new abstraction bubbles are created. The fractal nature of the process is key to making sense of any part of it.
14:50 virtualism: this is the way; it is the only useful way to preserve materialism (without the denigrating taste of epiphenomalism), and to overcome dualism (= the mind-body problem solved) and idealism (- the dreamer dreaming the universe being the only thing that certainly exists); to explain the magic of lying to yourself (= usually without noticing it at first; if you still do it after noticing / not fixing your model to your best understanding, wishful thinking becomes something akin to black magic; white magic would be something like „fake it till house make it“ / „positive thinking“. ) - The simulacrum only has to be „good enough“ on first glance: on closer inspection it usually is flawed, inconsistent, taking shortcuts, being under-complex compared to its generator-function: it simply has to be a model itself, it can’t be physical or unique, as it is easily amendable: it is obviously software and not hardware: it has to be an activation pattern. (It still can have underlying neural connections being formed, strengthened, weakened or dying off.)
What will motivate AI? Why won’t it just turn itself off? If you create an intelligence without a heart, a soul, something to live for outside itself, then you are creating a monster.
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Virtualism is just a bubble of abstraction within which patterns are perceived, causal links are deduced, relations between causal structures are found, and contextual dependencies are integrated, and new abstraction bubbles are created. The fractal nature of the process is key to making sense of any part of it.
14:50 virtualism: this is the way; it is the only useful way to preserve materialism (without the denigrating taste of epiphenomalism), and to overcome dualism (= the mind-body problem solved) and idealism (- the dreamer dreaming the universe being the only thing that certainly exists); to explain the magic of lying to yourself (= usually without noticing it at first; if you still do it after noticing / not fixing your model to your best understanding, wishful thinking becomes something akin to black magic; white magic would be something like „fake it till house make it“ / „positive thinking“. ) - The simulacrum only has to be „good enough“ on first glance: on closer inspection it usually is flawed, inconsistent, taking shortcuts, being under-complex compared to its generator-function: it simply has to be a model itself, it can’t be physical or unique, as it is easily amendable: it is obviously software and not hardware: it has to be an activation pattern. (It still can have underlying neural connections being formed, strengthened, weakened or dying off.)
What will motivate AI? Why won’t it just turn itself off? If you create an intelligence without a heart, a soul, something to live for outside itself, then you are creating a monster.