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11 Jun 2021
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Quantum computing is closer to consciousness than any automated statistics will ever be. No matter how many googleflops of information 18:06:22
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Not however with qubits. Our brain quantum computers are much different 18:07:26
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org More analogue and holographic than bits 18:07:42
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty, it is not Intelligence 18:08:48
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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Firstly, you can think of many things as autonomous if they are self represented. You respect the property of others, a car or even a laptops belonging to someone and you generally treat these with property level respect due to laws and customs. Regardless of their intelligence or “sentience”. We’ll talk to our toasters and organizers as though they’re sentient, even when we know they are far more limited than a dense human.
This is a good point, but i don't think it's the same thing. In ancient times, slaves were also respected, but not for their sentience (moral reasons), but rather because they "belonged" to someone whose sentience they respected. In today's time we respect property, but it's moral only by proxy because we don't assume the property has sentience of it's own. This could be very different case with artificial intelligence.
18:11:22
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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Not however with qubits. Our brain quantum computers are much different
Ah right, because you assume our brain are quantum computers, which is what makes our consciousness something special. I very much disagree with that, i think our brains are just plain analogue computers.
18:14:43
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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Not however with qubits. Our brain quantum computers are much different
* Ah right, because you assume our brains are quantum computers, which is what makes our consciousness something special. I very much disagree with that, i think our brains are just plain analogue computers.
18:15:04
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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More analogue and holographic than bits
I'm not sure what you mean by "holographic" but yes, neurons output digital bits but the encoding of information is analogue because the circuits are time sensitive.
18:17:54
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org
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I'm not sure what you mean by "holographic" but yes, neurons output digital bits but the encoding of information is analogue because the circuits are time sensitive.
I believe this to be incorrect. Our neurons are not digital, they are potential
18:20:47
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Potential is analogue 18:21:00
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Like a sound wave 18:21:09
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty, it is not Intelligence
I think this interpretation of intelligence is fine, yes. I personally interpret intelligence as the ability of abstracting out data.
18:21:10
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Information is that which removes uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information 18:21:55
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Intelligence and information have exactly the relationship you describe 18:22:15
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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I believe this to be incorrect. Our neurons are not digital, they are potential
So how the logic of neurons works each neuron has a threshold of potential, each neuron has different threshold, that threshold is the only variable that gets optimized (that's how the neuron learns). If the input potential passes the threshold, the neuron becomes "activated" and fires a single spike of signal, which acts as a digital bit. That single bit goes to other neurons, building up their own potential. I think the accumulated potential also drops with time, so some insensitive neurons get only activated by being repeatedly stimulated in very short amount of time.
18:26:06
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org The quantum dynamic of consciousness is such that localized singularity acts as a sieve of potential. This behavior is infinitely more energy efficient than a model of linear cognition on which bits hierarchically combine for a cause/effect state machine output 18:26:06
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Read the prior comment 18:26:30
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Posted simultaneously:/ 18:26:43
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.orgIn the holographic singularity, the more mirror neurons, the higher the resolution18:27:38
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org So splitting the number of mirror clusters would produce a thought half as clear 18:28:13
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org We’ve all had fuzzy/clear thoughts, and many in different forms at the same time 18:28:42
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org These proportion to how much (and of what quality) the neural interactions 18:29:46
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Not binary or sequential, though temporality and sequence are thought technologies 18:30:35
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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Information is that which removes uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information
I don't really like the use of word uncertainty in the definition of intelligence, because to be certain of something implies consciousness, and exactly as you stated, there can be intelligent actors without them being conscious. Maybe that's just my interpretation of the word uncertainty.
18:31:43
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Potential is the domain of probability. The reduction of potential is the reduction of uncertainty (entropy) without anthropomorphism 18:33:10
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.orgSo the super amplitude of potentials is how uncertain you may be that the outcome will be any one specific thing.18:33:54
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Though you may be mostly confident that the outcome will be among potentials, in a well modeled system 18:34:28
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.orgYET NEVER CERTAIN!18:34:38
@inphovore:matrix.org@inphovore:matrix.org Only less uncertain 18:35:08
@arjix:matrix.org@arjix:matrix.org
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The quantum dynamic of consciousness is such that localized singularity acts as a sieve of potential. This behavior is infinitely more energy efficient than a model of linear cognition on which bits hierarchically combine for a cause/effect state machine output
I agree with that quantum dynamics are able to encode a lot more information, yet that which we are observing in science points to our brains working as "simple" statistical machines. It is actually well established at this point.
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