derek
@derek
What do you think is the biggest mystery in science? I have two which are related: • Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why does that something continue in a causal fashion? This cast inspired by this podcast with Lex Fridman and Adam Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz0R_S4QMk
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Metaphorical
@hyp
Causality is perhaps a human construct. Check out Wolfram on observer theory. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/12/observer-
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musicguy.base.eth
@music-guy.eth
The discussion about artificial intelligence and consciousness is very interesting. Adam Frank suggests that artificial intelligence has no possibility of possessing consciousness. If artificial intelligence doesn't gain the ability to exist in an artificial reality where it can sense its environment, how could it develop consciousness? If creating a virtual world is possible, then it's likely that AI consciousness could emerge through these experiences. The virtual world doesn't even have to resemble our own—we don't know if "our creator" is, perhaps, outside the box in which we exist. It's theoretically possible that we are part of a data carrier with computational power, enabling us to perceive everything around us. Our creator's world could be completely different, and our world might be solely their creative idea. The same could happen with AI given sufficient scientific advancement. This, of course, is just a theory that has puzzled me since childhood.
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tyler ↑
@trh
The first one for sure.
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Matt
@mattlee
A more important question to me is what qualifies something as something as opposed to being nothing?
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cyrus
@cyrus
Favourite atm is “how much time was there before the Big Bang?” It relates to the notion of ‘time’s arrow’ - I met the professor here at MIT who came up with the theory (he was ofc initially ridiculed) He’s now teaching an experimental course on time travel.
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Colin Johnson 💭
@cojo.eth
Also, why consciousness? Everything could run within the universe exactly as it does, both deterministically and biologically, without any need for beings to be aware of it. And yet we are 🤷♂️
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ilove.base.eth
@chris24.eth
/microsub tip: 126 $DEGEN
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