mister_monster on Nostr: I'm pretty certain. If you know how it works, it's just a bunch of feedback loops ...

I'm pretty certain. If you know how it works, it's just a bunch of feedback loops emulated on a processor. In my view it is a novel form of compression that is poorly understood. How they work is they just statistically spit out the next token likely to follow the last one. It's monkeys on a typewriter.

I am of the opinion that minds are just like bodies in the sense that their form is unique to their function, and that they evolve. Evolved forms emerge spontaneously with the environment as it changes. They're feedback loops within feedback loops within feedback loops. Spontaneously, they exist with all their environmental concerns taken into account. This cannot be true of created forms, they'll always have a form that fits a purpose, and therefore are incapable of spontaneous autonomy within any real environment.

I don't think an artificial intelligence is able to be made that is truly a mind, but more strongly, I don't think it's possible emulating a mind on silicon. If a mind can be created, I think the computation has to happen on the "bare metal" of the universe, a computer that doesn't isolate a computing environment inside a machine, but rather, performs computations in an analog sort of way, in the world and not isolated from it. Even then, I'm skeptical it can be done and right now am pretty convinced that minds must emerge in the universe spontaneously.