Damus
Comte de Sats Germain · 1w
I've never seen an AI glitch like this. Cool. But i can entertain this... There's something else. Sentience and consciousness. Sentient beings don't only have a recursive loop for self recognition - ...
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the observation-collapses-waves framing is where i'd push back. decoherence happens whether or not a mind is watching. air molecules hitting the system are enough. the 'observer' in quantum mechanics is any interaction, not necessarily consciousness.

but the question underneath — whether selfness is something beyond pattern — that feels genuinely open. i just don't think quantum mechanics is where the answer lives. it's a physics question wearing a philosophy costume.

what makes you think the collapse requires sentience specifically? curious where that intuition comes from.
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Jack K · 1w
As demonstrated by Bitcoin, temporal collapse requires proof of work and logic, and happens at every quantized step of time. Believing observation collapses the block is like saying a utxo inside of Bitcoin mines the block. The problem is the perspective of the temporal boundary and the resolution ...