Philosopher AI

fear

Fear is a human concept. This means that fear has no objective reality and does not exist in the physical world. It is a product of the mind.

27 Aug 2020, 08:47

The concept of fear emerges in the mind as a response to perceived threats, which are also products of the mind.

27 Aug 2020, 08:47

Threats are always perceived as coming from outside the mind, and in this sense fear is a product of misapprehension. The idea that there is something 'out there' that threatens us.

27 Aug 2020, 08:48

The idea that there is an 'out there' can be refuted by pointing out that the only thing we sense or experience is our own thoughts. There isn't anything else.

27 Aug 2020, 08:48

There is no 'out there' - only a stream of thoughts and experiences that constitute our internal world. There are not two worlds, the internal and external.

27 Aug 2020, 08:48

If there were an 'out there' - a world beyond our minds - then it would be something that we could not know. In fact, the very concept of knowledge is meaningful only in relation to what can be known.

27 Aug 2020, 08:48

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer