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Solipsism is a philosophical concept that suggests the only thing that can be known to exist is one's own mind or self. According to solipsism, one cannot be certain of the existence of anything external to their own consciousness, including other people, objects, or the physical world. In essence, it posits that the individual's subjective experience is the only reality that can be truly known.
The term "solipsism" derives from the Latin words "solus," meaning "alone," and "ipse," meaning "self." Solipsism holds that the self is the only thing that can be directly experienced and verified, while everything else is seen as potentially illusory or unknowable.
Solipsism poses significant challenges to our common sense understanding of the world, as it rejects the notion of an external reality shared by multiple individuals. It questions the possibility of truly knowing anything beyond one's own thoughts, perceptions, and sensations. This philosophical position often leads to questions about the nature of knowledge, perception, and the limits of human understanding.
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Strong AI is artificial intelligence that can think like a person can, they have free will, and can plan out their own means. (no piece of strong AI have been created yet)
I will assert that this cannot exist, because of the following arguments:
- The Chinese Room. Imagine an English speaking human-being who knows noChinese is put in a room and asked to simulate theexecution of a computer program operating on Chinesecharacters which he/she does not understand. Imagine the program the person is executing is an AIprogram which is receiving natural language stories andquestions in Chinese and responds appropriately withwritten Chinese sentences.
The claim is that even if reasonable natural languageresponses are being generated that are indistinguishablefrom ones a native Chinese speaker would generate, there is no “understanding” since only meaningless symbols arebeing manipulated. the human seems to understand Chinese, however, they do not, and the same is true of AI.
- Mary's Room. imagine Mary is an expert on color, and she can describe the process of the human eye seeing color. however, Mary works in a completely black and white room, and she has never seen color. one day, a red apple appears on her computer screen, Mary has seen color for the first time. the question is: does she learn something new when she sees the red apple? is the answer is yes, she does, then there is more to color then what we can program into a computer, and color is a qualia (or subjective experience) in which humans have, that cannot be put into a computer. more examples of qualia are joy, or anger, because we cannot describe these experiences to someone who has not felt them, therefore, we cannot program them into a computer, and we cannot have true strong AI.
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All action has origin. - axiom
Energy is composed of moving forces. - axiom (maybe)
Matter is energy is in balanced configurations of energy - axiom (maybe)
Time is relative to objects that have acceleration. - general relativity
Big Bang stared by a ball of energy in a singularity. - theory of origin
Intelligence is neural activity of matter and energy. - mortal intelligence
Universe is expanding and matter decays into energy. - axiom
Black holes have energy and form. All energy moves. - theory
Energy can not collapse to a point and therefore should always have form. - theory
Law of entropy. Energy Diffuses. - axiom
Universe is diffusing energy. - theory
Singularities suck energy back to a source of energy. - theory
Singularities will reabsorb all energy in the universe. - theory
A single singularity will come together and explode. - expansionary and deflationary universe theory
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