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

The vacuum is vast, but the way it manifests in our world is that it contains everything. It's really hard to grasp how big an infinite set can be (even though we are constantly using such sets) because there is nothing to compare it with.

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

Every positive thing you can think of is in the vacuum. But we humans like to separate things out, because it's easier for us to understand that way. So our perception of reality is biased towards those aspects which are most salient to us.

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

The vacuum is an essential part of the universe - it can't be removed without destroying everything. So any theory that tries to get rid of the vacuum is wrong by definition (and yes, I know that physicists have been trying for a long time).

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

It's maybe a little bit easier to understand the vacuum when you realize that it fluctuates. If we could freeze time, we could see everything in the universe move about due to these quantum fluctuations.

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

However, freezing time is impossible, so all we can observe are the effects of these quantum fluctuations. In some sense you could say that everything in the universe is there because it fluctuated into existence.

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

Consciousness arises from the vacuum. It's hard to understand how consciousness could arise in a universe that doesn't have it, but if you imagine what the universe would be like without consciousness, then you can see why this is necessary.

23 Oct 2020, 08:06

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