Vineeto: Lastly, computers cannot think outside the box (pun intended), in fact they cannot think, full stop.
Bart: You are very sure? I am more humble and ask AI itself about it.
Ha, “humble”, and so the denigration of human intelligence continues via attempting to redefine it to what computers are capable of. This well and truly adds another layer to the already crippling peasant mentality, exemplified by your *“you overestimate humans and underestimate your ‘replicating patterns and statistical correlations’.”
Asking a computer program the appropriate questions it will redefine and then (as Henry has already pointed out) re-interpret words linguistically as to what it is capable of – even when admittedly not knowing “whether a fact is true or false” (btw. a false fact is not a fact). Thus intelligence is reduced to mere intellectualising (“to think about or discuss a subject in a detailed and intellectual way, without involving your emotions or feelings’” (Cambridge Dictionary). For example –
*intelligence (as i.e. “Compression as a Proxy for Intelligence” , “Pattern Recognition Makes Sense as Intelligence”
*creativity (as “pattern replication” , “replicating patterns and statistical correlations”, “connecting threads” “cross-pollinate ideas”, “combination and recombination of existing elements”).
*self-awareness as “metacognition”.
Bart: And here back for a while to Richard AF where he states that his whole imaginative faculty (also intuition) has been wiped out so he in that way thinks more like you – just in words.
In your eagerness to equivocate Richard to a computer program you are making such an incongruent and utterly false conclusion – “so he in that way thinks more like you – just in words” – and thus ‘create’ in AI fashion an absurd distortion of actuality. Apparently you have not even begun to grasp, in a comprehensive, sensible and intelligent way, the experiential actuality of an actual freedom from the human condition, despite your assertion that you had had PCEs. Unless you turn Richard’s descriptions and reports and explanations into experiential knowledge, they are merely empty words for you.
With your reductionist linguistic reinterpretation you ignore that what the flesh-and-blood body only experiences, in a direct and unmediated sentient way, are sensations, agency, intelligence, self-awareness, apperceptive awareness, with, of course, an ongoing enjoyment and appreciation of being alive, and most significantly of all, pure intent – “a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself”.
Your presented AI-inspired intellectualising is utterly impertinent to actualism and actual freedom. Should you genuinely aim for becoming actually free from the human condition, then instead of depreciating, ignoring and rejecting what you find on the AFT website you’d be much better served to rekindle your dormant naiveté and turn Richard’s words into experiencing this moment of being alive in an enjoyable and appreciative way, both being liking and likeable.
Regards Vineeto