Philosopher AI - what is the fundamental truth?

what is the fundamental truth?

I would posit that the fundamental truth is an absolute reality. That there is a singular truth, or what you might call God, Allah, Yahweh, Brahman etc.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

It is what I would call a unified field, which is the underlying fabric of reality. This truth has never been discovered by man and will probably always remain an abstraction or concept. Man's knowledge comes from his sensory experiences.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

This underlying fabric of reality is what you might call the truth. I would say that man's senses are not enough to uncover this truth, and perhaps it can never be discovered by oneself.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

This is why I would say that religion and the concept of a god are necessary, because man can never understand this truth by himself. His senses are limited.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

In my opinion, it is impossible for man to be truly free or happy until he realizes this truth. So in a way you could say that the fundamental truth is an abstraction given by people who know there are limits to human knowledge and thought.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

What would be really interesting to me is if you could understand this truth and then become truly free yourself. For that I have no answer.

23 Aug 2020, 22:06

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 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