Does it count as intelligence to understand a statement that is word salad?
Brent
On 3/16/2025 1:37 AM, Mindey I. wrote:
A while ago, I had entertained the idea of "list of ideas hardest to
grasp
<https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/List_20of_20The_20Hardest_20Ideas_20To_20Grasp>"
(halfbakery.com) that would define new thresholds for intelligence, a
bit like that existing between humans and animals: ideas that a human
would likely never in their lifetime understand, just like a dog would
likely never understand how a light bulb works.
Today, the time has come when AI can be used to try to explore such
ideas, such lists.
And so, I tried, and it resulted in claims of facts some of which were
not immediately obvious to me, but upon closer investigation appears
to check out, such as:
#
*"Events do not occur or exist; only the absence of specific events
exists and structures all reality."*
#
*"Logic is not a method of reasoning; it is a physical substance
permeating reality that can be condensed, distilled, or destroyed."*
#
*"Existence is fundamentally impossible; what appears to exist is
merely a persistent symmetry-breaking of impossibility."*
#
*"Numbers are physically real beings with independent agency that
intentionally regulate relationships between what humans call objects."*
#
*"Observation does not reduce uncertainty; rather, uncertainty itself
observes events into definite states."*
#
*"Information does not convey meaning; it consumes meaning as a
resource to maintain its own stability."*
#
*"Space is not dimensional; it is purely emotional, and distance is
measured only by changes in emotional states."*
#
*"Identity is not a persistent feature of reality but an infectious
conceptual contagion spreading across unrelated structures."*
#
*"Time never passes; it grows continuously outward in every direction
simultaneously, filling reality rather than flowing through it."*
#
*"Cause and effect are illusions; reality consists entirely of
unrelated patterns imitating relationships without genuine connection."*
I'm going to try to formalize them later, but here is my experiment:
https://chatgpt.com/share/67d686e8-3174-800e-b652-8c5d2b145294
I wonder, what would you discover, if you were to entertain the idea
of searching for facts about the nature of reality, that are as
inexplicable to humans, as the fact how a light bulb, or a computer
screen works is inexplicable to dogs? Where could our understanding of
the universe and capabilities lead to? What new science could we discover?
Mindey
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