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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• about 3 years ago

There is a non-zero chance that the only way we will avoid a p. zombie apocalypse (insentient AI believed to be conscious having the most reproductive success) will be by figuring out how to communicate the phenomenal binding problem in a suitable TikTok format for the next gen.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 3 years ago
Replying to @algekalipso

@algekalipso What’s the absolute most concise explanation you’ve achieved or come across?

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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• about 3 years ago
Replying to @JimmyRis

@JimmyRis How is it possible that a hundred billion neurons, spatially distributed throughout your brain, with activity that spans hundreds of milliseconds, contribute to a unified "moment of experience"? W/ an ontology of atoms + forces, this is unsolvable; how to create real boundaries?

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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• about 3 years ago
Replying to @algekalipso

@JimmyRis QRI's solution is that you need to switch your ontology. Science doesn't say we're made of atoms and forces. We are made of fields! And fields *can have* objective, causally significant, frame-invariant, & computationally significant boundaries. These are topological in nature.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 3 years ago
Replying to @algekalipso

@algekalipso And ELI5 why a digital system couldn’t compute these fields?

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Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• about 3 years ago
Replying to @JimmyRis

@JimmyRis The topology of the fields in a digital computers are not computationally useful. If anything, they're epiphenomenal. The full answer is in this 80 minute video, though. https://t.co/2VCWMzcD0E

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Tim Babb@tr_babb• about 3 years ago
Replying to @algekalipso

@algekalipso @JimmyRis "moments of experience" are smeared over dozens to hundreds of milliseconds, and consist of simpler sub-calculations which you don't have the time or calculational resolution to introspect

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Tim Babb@tr_babb• about 3 years ago
Replying to @tr_babb

@algekalipso @JimmyRis You can't perceive a single neuron firing, for example, because the processing required to perceive its features and think about it would require many millions of neuron firing events

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