Philosophical Speculations

Cleric wrote: ↑Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:40 pm

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 1:35 pm It is interesting because it's like the mystery is applied in the wrong direction, toward the subsensible instead of the supersensible. The intellect effectively says, "There is much more to be found by digging deeper into my familiar computational gestures, we have only begun to scratch the surface of what these gestures are capable of revealing. If we remain humble and allow these gestures to proliferate in the most varied configurations, there is no telling what kind of deeper realities we will interface with, what kind of intelligences will incarnate into them." And of course that is true, in a way, but the deeper realities encountered will be of an elemental nature, the projection of our unexamined being conditioned by past karma. (like the atavistic faculties Kaje posted about elsewhere). The spiritual reality unveiled will be fantastic spectrum of ghosts, demons, and spectres.

Now I think that I have a good opportunity to examine these things from first-person experience, because I was actually one who vehemently believed in the "Strong AI" philosophy (the idea that consciousness is what any computational process, no matter the substrate, feels like)
I'll have to try to reconstruct how everything felt to me at that time and why it seemed so convincing.