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patphil

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6. There is an intangible aspect to human consciousness that AI can never faithfully reproduce.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:20 PM
Oct 17

It's the soul to spirit connection that has no physical attributes, and contains knowledge and understanding that goes beyond our conscious experience.
It's not simply intuition, but is a higher type of knowing that sees the world in a more complete and indisputably true manner that we can tap into if we just take the time and effort to align ourselves with it.

AI is very useful, but has limits. Unfortunately, we're going to go way beyond those limits as the use of AI leans more toward the management of information than the identification and revelation of the truth in the information it presents us with.
This is by design; by the same people who see AI as a means to an end.

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Wasn't the AI warned not to take the brown ASCII? Dave Bowman Oct 17 #1
Lol! Blues Heron Oct 17 #2
Now ask it markodochartaigh Oct 17 #3
Artificial Intelligence is much larger than just LLMs. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 17 #4
"Hallucinations" seems like an overly dramatic word for mistakes. enough Oct 17 #5
Mistake is not a world that means speak easy Oct 17 #7
There is an intangible aspect to human consciousness that AI can never faithfully reproduce. patphil Oct 17 #6
There is also something more tangible - fundamental uncertainty. speak easy Oct 17 #8
There is no spooky-woo to human consciousness. It is simply emergent behaviour Bernardo de La Paz Oct 17 #9
This is a brilliant post Alephy Oct 17 #10
spooky-woo? What's that? patphil Oct 17 #11
Spooky-woo is this: Alephy Oct 17 #12
It's sad that you have to critcize in such a derrogatory way that which you don't beleive in and have no experience of. patphil Oct 17 #14
I apologize if I offended you Alephy Oct 17 #16
Apology accepted. Perhaps a little over reaction on both sides. patphil Oct 17 #18
There is no binary state of being conscious vs not being conscious. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 17 #17
I don't tell people what to think. I find that to be a worthless and thankless endeavor. patphil Oct 17 #19
Again, I ask, what is this "more" you speak of. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #20
Considering the smarter experts on AI have been pointing out this fundamental problem with LLMs highplainsdem Oct 17 #13
It's not "admitting" anything. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 17 #15
When you scrape the internet to train your LLM... tinrobot Saturday #21
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" Swede Saturday #22
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" speak easy Saturday #23
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