Comment by blackhaj7
1 day ago
“Instead of a “final authority” or a simple march from animal to machine, what if everything from mind, physics, value, selfhood, is simply a recursive pattern expressed in ever more novel forms?”
This part nicely synthesises my biggest takeaway from experiencing AI: how close to human intelligence we have got with recursive pattern matching
It's Mandelbrot all the way down.
I can’t decide whether this joke is stupid or clever!
You've experienced AI?
Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
"an emergent consequence of seething lower-level activity in the brain"
Interesting!