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{{d|Temporality|/ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti/|n|}}The unavoidable, but easy to forget, nature of existence through [[time]]. Continuity. | {{d|Temporality|/ˌtɛmpəˈralɪti/|n|}}The unavoidable, but easy to forget, nature of existence through [[time]]. Continuity. | ||
The importance of our continuing existence through the entropising sludge of time is much overlooked in our [[tense]]less, ''stupid'' age: we surrender ourselves to [[data]], to the dictates of [[symbol processing]]; to the unthinking tyranny of if the [[difference engine]]. But we discard the fourth dimension to our own detriment and the machines’ great advantage: it is along that underestimated axis that our [[wicked]] game of life plays out. That is where the machines cannot fathom us. | The importance of our continuing existence through the entropising sludge of time is much overlooked in our [[tense]]less, ''stupid'' age: we surrender ourselves to [[data]], to the dictates of [[symbol processing]]; to the unthinking tyranny of if the [[difference engine]]. But we discard the fourth dimension to our own detriment and the machines’ great advantage: it is along that underestimated axis that our [[wicked]] game of life plays out. That is where the machines cannot fathom us. Humans are ''good'' ant handling the vissitudes served up by passing time. Machines are ''bad''. | ||
===Static=== | |||
{{Quote|He conceived of good planning as a series of static acts. In each case, the plan must anticipate all that is needed and be protected, after it is built against any but the most minor subsequent changes. He conceived of planning also as essentially paternalistic if not altogether authoritarian. | |||
:—[[Jane Jacobs]] on Ebenezer Howard, in {{br|The Death and Life of Great American Cities}}}} | |||
Modernist schemes are fragile in the face of the necessary contingency of life in a complex system. Computer systems seem like they might not be, but they are, too. A pattern matching machine that reacts progressively to an unfolding situation, by itself, will progressively, systematically, lose touch with reality. The hallucinatory world will progressively deepen. | |||
Imagine playing theatre sports with an AI. There is probably a mathematical equation that will predict how much less based an LLM would become while trying, real-time and unaided, to deal with an unfolding complex event. | |||
Either we steward the machine, and the meatware keeps it based, or we stick with static algorithms. We can try to anticipate every contingency — in which case our model becomes progressively like an over lawyered trust deed, tediously cataloguing fall backs for vanishingly remote contingencies — or we could just rely on humans to do it. | |||
===Intelligence as a card-trick=== | |||
Computer “intelligence” is a clever card trick: a cheap ''simulacrum'' of consciousness composed of still frames. But consciousness — a continuing “self” extending backwards and forwards in time — evolved to solve the single problem that an algorithm cannot: existential continuity. | Computer “intelligence” is a clever card trick: a cheap ''simulacrum'' of consciousness composed of still frames. But consciousness — a continuing “self” extending backwards and forwards in time — evolved to solve the single problem that an algorithm cannot: existential continuity. | ||
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But there is a chicken and egg problem here: a [[strange loop]]: ''important to whom?'' | But there is a chicken and egg problem here: a [[strange loop]]: ''important to whom?'' | ||
====Why plants are not conscious==== | ====Why plants are not conscious==== | ||
We suppose that a sense of self is not important to plants, for example.<ref>We may be wrong. Who knows?</ref> They can get by automatically, by algorithmic operation of evolved functions in their cells. Their cells operate rather like miniature [[Turing machine|Turing machines]]: If ''this'' then, ''that''. | We suppose that a sense of self is not important to plants, for example.<ref>We may be wrong. Who knows?</ref> They can get by automatically, by algorithmic operation of evolved functions in their cells. Their cells operate rather like miniature [[Turing machine|Turing machines]]: If ''this'' then, ''that''. | ||