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AI is just a prediction engine, just like a tiger is just molecules.
I do find that very comforting.
It reminds me of a bit in the outer chapters of the zhuangzi that’s talking about fearing death. It points out how bad a lump of iron would be if it demanded to only ever be a knife and never recast into anything else.
How am I to know that the current configuration of the molecules I’m made of is the best use of them? There will come a time where everything that’s me is recast and put to better use.
Now I’m imagining an iron proletariat uprising
The scary part is realizing the part that is you is not the particles, but its momentary pattern.
You’re a quasistable event.
You’re a wave.
You’re a brief song.
You’re a vibe.
And then you’re gone.
Most people aren’t ready to deal with that.
Like, there’s tons of philosophy to the question “what is (the) I”.
I like the buddhism answer that the I is only an idea, and therefore non-physical and timeless. The material just flows and sometimes happens to be in one shape and another. The consciousness, which we perceive when we see something, is more like a dream that shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
There’s a Zen riddle to that: (riddle of the wind) Two student monks were standing in front of a flag that was moving in the wind.
The first monk said: The flag is moving.
The second disagreed: No, the wind is moving.
Along the way came the zen master.
The students asked him: Is the flag moving, or is the wind moving?
Upon which the master replied: It is neither the flag that is moving nor the wind that is moving; It is the soul that is moving.
Sometimes when I feel the call of the void, I remember I’m made up primarily of empty space
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