Gabriel, thank you so much for this beautiful piece. What resonated with me most was what you wrote about faith:
"The question I am actually asking is not “is the story true.” It is “what does the story produce.”".
At this point, allow me to add something to the picture from the perspective of a physicist—something that may be meaningful for some readers.
The great theories and laws of science— Newton's laws in physics, or the Schrödinger equation, for example—cannot ultimately be derived from anything that came before them. They were born through intuition. Through what you call an immersion in the water.
Of course, once people emerged from the water, they came ashore and dried themselves off. They used the logic of mathematics to analyze what they had found, to understand it, to test it, and to express it. But the essence was born in the water.
I think AI will also engender some good things, but in the end it is a tool in the hand of its maker: humans, and it will do more of what humans are good at. Unfortunately we have proved over and over we are better at doing arm than good.
This is a thoughtful and needed piece, Gabriel, but what really sparked my imagination was your passing phrase, great harmonization. As in The Great Harmonization? Because that resonates even more (for me, at least) than the other Greats (Simplification, Turning, etc.) Thank you. ❤️
I wrote this without any idea the Great Harmonization was a thing. It is just from my observation of life cycles. Everything return to harmonization even when harmonization is entropy and takes centuries and millennia. the great harmonization in my words is the work of the "Perfect Universe" constantly at work.
I'll give it a try. Yet I blocked this author a while back... I did not like his overly dramatic style that relies on shock and sometime dubious data to attract readers and then denies it in the following posts...
I did an interview with a gentleman named Federico Jeanne, who said the reason that AI probably won’t be “conscious“ it’s because AI lacks biology. And it is our biology, the beating of the heart, the feeling of the grass underneath your feet the caress, the touch, that is what humans experience before they explain it and all AI can really do is explain it.
Maybe it will be conscious because there are many forms of consciousness after all. Human consciousness is what we know and we have a hard time to define it but what is consciousness from another species perspective? That we have no clue and from the usual human arrogance we tend to dismiss it altogether.
Yet it will not be the consciousness we experience with a body, a nervous system, emotions, the ability to regulate thought breath, touch, the ability to co-regulate among peers... none of this.
I spent most of my time with client bringing them in their bodies because humans are so lost in the mind. When people realize the body has its own intelligence, its own messages and that much of the trouble we have to find our way comes from the separation mind-body, it is usually an epiphany. And AI is all in the mind. No biology indeed...
Gabriel, thank you so much for this beautiful piece. What resonated with me most was what you wrote about faith:
"The question I am actually asking is not “is the story true.” It is “what does the story produce.”".
At this point, allow me to add something to the picture from the perspective of a physicist—something that may be meaningful for some readers.
The great theories and laws of science— Newton's laws in physics, or the Schrödinger equation, for example—cannot ultimately be derived from anything that came before them. They were born through intuition. Through what you call an immersion in the water.
Of course, once people emerged from the water, they came ashore and dried themselves off. They used the logic of mathematics to analyze what they had found, to understand it, to test it, and to express it. But the essence was born in the water.
Short, sweet, and deeply resonant assessment of why AI will engender harm rather than be the panacea we have been promised. Thank you.
I think AI will also engender some good things, but in the end it is a tool in the hand of its maker: humans, and it will do more of what humans are good at. Unfortunately we have proved over and over we are better at doing arm than good.
This is a thoughtful and needed piece, Gabriel, but what really sparked my imagination was your passing phrase, great harmonization. As in The Great Harmonization? Because that resonates even more (for me, at least) than the other Greats (Simplification, Turning, etc.) Thank you. ❤️
I wrote this without any idea the Great Harmonization was a thing. It is just from my observation of life cycles. Everything return to harmonization even when harmonization is entropy and takes centuries and millennia. the great harmonization in my words is the work of the "Perfect Universe" constantly at work.
And it fits with this: https://markashryock.substack.com/p/the-world-we-have-known-ends-this?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9fmvk
I'll give it a try. Yet I blocked this author a while back... I did not like his overly dramatic style that relies on shock and sometime dubious data to attract readers and then denies it in the following posts...
Exactly. AI cannot experience experience. It may predict the next word in this sentence, but when it accurately predicts the future, then we have a
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I did an interview with a gentleman named Federico Jeanne, who said the reason that AI probably won’t be “conscious“ it’s because AI lacks biology. And it is our biology, the beating of the heart, the feeling of the grass underneath your feet the caress, the touch, that is what humans experience before they explain it and all AI can really do is explain it.
Maybe it will be conscious because there are many forms of consciousness after all. Human consciousness is what we know and we have a hard time to define it but what is consciousness from another species perspective? That we have no clue and from the usual human arrogance we tend to dismiss it altogether.
Yet it will not be the consciousness we experience with a body, a nervous system, emotions, the ability to regulate thought breath, touch, the ability to co-regulate among peers... none of this.
I spent most of my time with client bringing them in their bodies because humans are so lost in the mind. When people realize the body has its own intelligence, its own messages and that much of the trouble we have to find our way comes from the separation mind-body, it is usually an epiphany. And AI is all in the mind. No biology indeed...