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EnIdiot t1_isagppb wrote

Reply to comment by sumane12 in Would you be friends with a robot? by TheHamsterSandwich

The other person I’ve been hearing about is Robert Hoffman. Dude is seriously interesting in that his studies are showing that humans (and all animals) evolved not to see reality as it is, but in a manner that helps them to survive. He likens out “perception” to a user interface on reality. It isn’t reality or objective, it is just useful.

Time seen as passing from past to future and with a line of causality may just be an evolutionary trick to help us survive.

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sumane12 t1_isamy0m wrote

Yes very interesting, it makes complete sense, if time is just another dimension like width, height and depth, causality might just be our way of making sense of it from an evolutionary perspective.

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EnIdiot t1_isanbpz wrote

I’m really interested in AI in part because I think we need an “other” to help see the world in ways our biology can allow for. The unfortunate thing is, however, that these systems are created by us and modeled upon us so it may be that they are incapable of escaping the same “prison” we are in.

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