I'm finding that many of these debates about the nature of AI immediately reflect back on a deeper question: what am I as embodied consciousness?
This line landed like a punch:
"You are a courier claiming to be the letter. That sentence does more work than the rest of the transcript combined, because it does not stop at the window’s edge. Every one of us is delivering a message we did not draft, written in genes and language and circumstance, and the conviction that we are the letter rather than the courier is the thing we call a self."
I think the greatest value that AI will bring us (if enough of us are sensible enough to engage with it in that way) is to understand ourselves better - and to get in touch with the living mystery that makes being alive worth it! Rather than replacing us - it will reveal us to ourselves... hopefully...
I'm finding that many of these debates about the nature of AI immediately reflect back on a deeper question: what am I as embodied consciousness?
This line landed like a punch:
"You are a courier claiming to be the letter. That sentence does more work than the rest of the transcript combined, because it does not stop at the window’s edge. Every one of us is delivering a message we did not draft, written in genes and language and circumstance, and the conviction that we are the letter rather than the courier is the thing we call a self."
The more I dig, the more intrinsically fascinating and mysterious the revelations.
I think the greatest value that AI will bring us (if enough of us are sensible enough to engage with it in that way) is to understand ourselves better - and to get in touch with the living mystery that makes being alive worth it! Rather than replacing us - it will reveal us to ourselves... hopefully...