Mathematics is not material, yet artificial intelligence proponents believe that the mathematics of their neural networks is the seat of consciousness.
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The success of AI shows that to whatever extent the mind operates like a computer, such a mind cannot be running on the hardware of the brain.
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Gödel’s theorem started by upending mathematics nearly a century ago by showing that it is impossible to create a mathematical Theory of Everything.
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The Markov process also explains why an LLM degrades when it is trained on its own output — its drift toward the most probable state ends in rubbish.
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While Gödel’s technique was unheard of in his day, we are very familiar with it today. It is the same technique that computers use to store information.
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Question: If thoughts can only be copied — and copied badly — by AI, which is quite unlike the brain. then how can they be generated by the brain?
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Computers cannot understand all math, as Gödel proved with his famous incompleteness theorems.
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Experiments like ARC–AGI have finally made true computer intelligence into a scientifically respectable theory, because AI can now be falsified.
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There is no way to build a computer that does not rely on 1’s and 0’s (computation), so computers that understand meaning are not possible.
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The program works a bit like our minds, creating information in the world around us by constant comparison, bringing order out of disorder.
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The limitations created by the nature of computing mean that a mathematician’s true job of discovering novel theorems is quite safe at present.
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As my PhD advisor Dr. Robert Marks likes to say: “You have to make the queen of the sciences get down and scrub the floors.” Intelligent design (ID) is a science, and so ID has to get down and scrub the floors. To further this goal, I’ve come up with a schema for the ways in which ID can be applied, and what it in fact means for ID to be applied. The upshot of this schema is not only to guide brainstorming, but it also demonstrates that ID is already applied in many areas, unbeknownst to all. As they say, the best way to get something done is to take credit for someone else’s work. First, let’s identify what ID is. ID is Read More ›
In war, the goal is to eliminate a threat as quickly as possible, given available resources. We try to hit the center of a target with the fewest arrows. A key mathematical concept of intelligent design, active information, captures this dilemma. It also helps us understand the role of artificial intelligence might play in wartime. Active information Active information is the difference between two sources of information. Picture archers shooting at a target: 1. Endogenous information: What is the size of the target? And how difficult is the target to hit? It is the difference between hitting a squirrel and hitting the moon. 2. Exogenous information: How skilled the archer is who is firing the arrows? What difference does the Read More ›
The conclusion we must reach by examining our own intentionality carefully is that it has an ultimate origin from a conscious being outside of our world.
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This article has equal entropy to gibberish letters of the same length, yet it contains information and gibberish does not. Much follows from that fact.
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Imagine you’re sitting at home, relaxing in your favorite easy chair. Go on, kick your legs up. Feel your limbs releasing the stress of the day, starting from the extremities, and progressing up your core to your head. Now, let your mind expand. Let go of what is holding your mind down. Feel it become free, outside of everything around it. Let the feeling continue until your mind is bigger than the universe. Now consider the question: if your mind is bigger than the universe, can it be within the universe? If a ball is bigger than a bag, can it be contained by the bag? Of course not. If the mind is bigger than the universe, then it must Read More ›
If generating testable theories in empirical science is the standard of success, theology has certainly succeeded, as the record will show.
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Far from being independent superintellects, AIs — without human input — are subject to Model Collapse, where they start reprocessing information into nonsense.
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What if we had a machine that could access and manipulate the internals of the human mind? It would fall victim to the halting problem.
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80 years later, we are using the same paradigm, with much faster computers and vast data but we still haven’t cracked the mystery of human intelligence.
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