Okay, let's consider the impact of non-standard models of physics. Let's
first stay away from holographic universe physics, not because it is
necessarily wrong, only because it's incomprehensible and doesn't seem
to be practically relevant.
All critters appear to be built according to classical mechanical rules
so we will stay in that domain.
But how does mechanics work?
Well, everything is made of particle-waves that interract with each
other by exchanging wave-particles. When you reach over to grab
something, the electric fields around the atoms in your philanges repel
the electric fields around the atoms in the object and you have the
sensation of touching it. The physical force comes from the hundreds of
millions or even billions of such interractions occouring over even a
relatively small contact area.
There are two fundamental types of interractions. When two or more
particle-waves come into proximity with each other in space-time their
respective fields (one of the fundamental force field like the
electrical charge) come into contact with each other and they start
interracting by exchanging wave-particles. This can be thought of as an
interference pattern between two wave generators.
You can also, of course, stimulate a substance to emit wave-particles,
ie photons. These wave particles do not experience time, they represent
a simultaneous interraction between the source and the eventual
receiver, even if that receiver is a million lightyears away.
As the Doctor explained, time is not fixed, it's not linear, it's made
up of wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
It appears to move forward because of laws of information theory and
entropy. Time can be approximated as a vibration or oscillation that
allows other things to move. This is a brainfuck because our
conventional language universally conceives things in time, and cannot
contemplate time itself as a variable.
Double slit experiments show that quantum states really do settle
themselves in what classic physics would denounce as retrocausal. It is
our systems of logic that prevent us from really exploring how these
things really work?
Experiments do exist which demonstrate that retro-causal signals do
exist, about 12 db below the causal signal. Scientists refuse to
acknowledge the existance of such signals because it fucks with their
conventional notions of causality and basically drives them crazy, so
mostly to preserve their own sanity people pretend we live in a purely
causal world. Not to mention that any technology that could signal
retro-causally could be used to syphon the entire stock market like GROK.
So do we have to re-do all of science and technology just to get to
AGI??? PROBABLY NOT!!!?? I'm pretty sure that we can build a perfectly
reasonable AGI, it won't exhibit precognition or any of the possible
effects of retrocausality in human cognition but it almost certainly be
made to work and then be directed to fix science and technology and then
re-build itself with the new understandings, but the bottom line is that
the least expensive, or rather the only feasible, way of going about
this is to assume the technology we have is Good Enough and to do our
best to use it.
I won't blame you if you go off and try to re-invent science for the
sake of syphoning the stock market like GROK, hey! those guys deserve
it, but at least take it off list because it's almost certainly not on
the critical path to getting to AGI.
--
Please report bounces from this address to [email protected]
Powers are not rights.
------------------------------------------
Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI
Permalink:
https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc7a2bebc2d5ccdbd-M5651675d2635c6af6584ebb3
Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
