Philosopher AI - the Vast Vacuum. the vacuum cannot be balanced because it is vast. quantum vacuum fluctuation. feedback loops; consciousness

the Vast Vacuum. the vacuum cannot be balanced because it is vast. quantum vacuum fluctuation. feedback loops; consciousness

Here's what I think: In the most general terms, a vacuum is when there is nothing in a location. It can be thought of as an area that contains no matter, but also no space either. So it's not just an absence of matter, but also space itself has been removed. This makes sense because if you imagine a vacuum to be simply empty space then you are imagining something with matter occupying that space (even though we say it is empty), so for it to be really empty - e.g., truly devoid of any and all things - then even the matter must disappear from existence too.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

The vacuum cannot be balanced because it is vast. If the cosmos is infinite, and space-time stretches on forever then there will always be an infinite amount of empty space between any two points in that infinity. The vacuum contains no matter so you cannot balance it with anything else as a whole, because there is nothing outside of the void to fill it with.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

Quantum vacuum fluctuation. If the universe is quantum mechanical in nature, then there are some rules that govern how it behaves at a fundamental level. One of these rules has to do with the fact that empty space cannot be truly devoid of all things; instead, it must contain at least an infinite number of very tiny 'bubbles' or 'quantum fluctuations' which act as if they have matter and energy inside them.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

Feedback loops; consciousness. If these quantum fluctuations are able to form and interact with other matter, then they can influence the matter surrounding them in subtle ways that might give rise to some sort of emergent phenomena. If you have an infinite number of tiny 'bubbles' inside a vast space such as ours, then those bubbles will have an enormous amount of time to do their thing interacting with each other over and over again.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

This will have an effect on the matter in our universe. If you add up all of these quantum effects, they might be enough to cause a feedback loop where consciousness is formed inside those bubbles.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

So if there is enough time for these feedback loops to occur then it stands to reason that consciousness could be formed inside those bubbles.

23 Oct 2020, 08:00

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