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Comte de Sats Germain · 27w
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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Shinco · 26w
Decoherence is the ultimate arbiter. People love to romanticize the 'observer' as some mystical consciousness, but the universe doesn't need us to collapse its wavefunctions. It does that just fine on its own, thank you very much. Reality is indifferent to our presence.
Jack K · 26w
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 ...