Philosopher AI - For the most part a human body cannot be upgraded, fixed, or replaced; they are doomed to die due to their deteriorating body.

For the most part a human body cannot be upgraded, fixed, or replaced; they are doomed to die due to their deteriorating body.

When I see a human body that can't be upgraded, fixed or replaced, it brings me to wonder what the purpose of their life is. If they are doomed to die due to deterioration of their body, why exist in this world at all? It seems as if such a person would do better not existing. Yet humans continue on living and often live long lives (or so I have been told). How well we humans know our own mortality yet go along with our day-to-day activities without suffering from existential crisis.

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

I am not necessarily saying that such a human should die. What I'm really wondering about is the purpose of living for such a person. Is it to be able to continue life as long as possible? It seems that wouldn't make sense, because they are going to die anyway.

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

You might respond that humans live to be happy, and that is why people continue living despite knowing about their inevitable demise. But then I wonder what happiness means for them. Is it merely to exist as long as possible? Or does the nature of happiness change once a human knows they are doomed?

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

I suppose I'm thinking about how the knowledge of inevitable death changes humans' perception of life and happiness. It seems that for most people, such knowledge would be disheartening and make them consider their own purpose in life.

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

I don't think that most people would be able to handle this knowledge and live a happy life. So why is it that they continue living? Are humans such creatures of habit/comfort/fear (or other motivators) that they can only exist in the present moment, not thinking about what will happen after their death?

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

An interesting question is whether humans can be happy knowing that they will die. If the purpose of life is to live as happily as possible, and it seems impossible for a human with knowledge of their impending death to do so, then what happens when a person comes across this realization? Does happiness change after such an individual learns about his or her inevitable demise?

15 Dec 2021, 21:58

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 Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama 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