On Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 6:30 PM Keyvan M. Sadeghi <keyvan.m.sade...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't be too religious about existence or non-existence of free will then, > yet. You're most likely right, but it may also be a quantum state! > The quantum explanation for consciousness (the thing that makes free will decisions) is that it is the property of observers that turns waves into particles. The Schrödinger wave equation is a pair of differential equations that relate the position, momentum, and energy of masses. It is an exact, deterministic description of a system. If that system contains observers, then the solution is an observer observing particles. The observations appear random because no part of the system can have complete knowledge of the system containing it. An observer does not need to be conscious. It just needs to have at least one bit of memory to save the measurement. The wave equation is symmetric with respect to time, but writing to memory is not, because the old value is erased. The problem with this explanation is that it says that all systems with memory are conscious. A human with 10^9 bits of long term memory is a billion times more conscious than a light switch. Is this definition really useful? In the meantime, how can we manipulate the shitheads of the world to do the > right things? > What would be the right things? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T991e2940641e8052-M7441e6a5ab3dd9fc963909db Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
