Conceptual impressions surrounding this post have yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network. Objective: To generate symbolic links between scientific discovery, design awareness and consciousness.
Artificial Intelligence
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By Ohio State University, edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Regan, July 4, 2024
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For all intents and purposes, all that is created is seeded in the unknown, gestates and emerges by becoming known and felt by means of symbolic correspondence (design).
Parameters set constraints, which in turn are recognized and categorized into bundles of symbolic references, i.e. experiences, required for both substantiating and sustaining consciousness.
AI has no "sense of compassion", no empathy, feeling or understanding. In reference to AI passion is merely an illusion. These forms of Intelligence rest solely within the construct of an observer - all feeling remains inescapable.
illusion: delusion, misapprehension, misconception, mistaken impression, misjudgment, impression, semblance, appearance, misperception, figment of the imagination.
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by Philip Goff
by Lawrence Weschler
“The digital maven Jaron Lanier once wrote about the way that “Information systems need to have information in order to run. But information under-represents reality. What makes something fully real is that it’s impossible to fully represent it to completion” (going on to elaborate: “A digital image of a painting is forever a re-presentation, not a real thing. A real painting is a bottomless mystery, like any other real thing. An oil painting changes over time; cracks appear on its face. It has texture, odor, and a sense of presence and history.”) Such that again we’re back with Nicholas of Cusa: Information is the million-sided polygon, whereas The Real is the circle. Or with Eudora Welty: “Making reality real is art’s responsibility.” Kant says somewhere that a work of art is a specific instance of a general law that cannot be stated.”
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By Daeyeol Lee
"Intelligence can be defined as the ability to solve complex problems or make decisions with outcomes benefiting the actor, and has evolved in lifeforms to adapt to diverse environments for their survival and reproduction."
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We need strict liability for the technology’s creators, Dennett argues: “They should be held accountable. They should be sued. They should be put on record that if something they make is used to make counterfeit people, they will be held responsible. They’re on the verge, if they haven’t already done it, of creating very serious weapons of destruction against the stability and security of society. They should take that as seriously as the molecular biologists have taken the prospect of biological warfare or the atomic physicists have taken nuclear war.” This is the real code red. We need to “institute new attitudes, new laws, and spread them rapidly and remove the valorization of fooling people, the anthropomorphization,” he said. “We want smart machines, not artificial colleagues.”
Source: You Are Not a Parrot, Artificial Intelligencer
by Elizabeth Weil, feature writer for New York Magazine, March 1. 2023
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Meike Drieesen, Neuroscience News.com, July 19, 2024
Summary: A new study examines the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems, focusing on ruling out scenarios where AI appears conscious without actually being so. Using the free energy principle, the study highlights that while some information processes of living organisms can be simulated by computers, the causal structure differences between brains and computers may be crucial for consciousness. This approach aims to prevent the inadvertent creation of artificial consciousness and mitigate deception by seemingly conscious AI."
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Priorities change, fluctuate, expand and contract within a multidimensional field in perpetual flux (QFVPP).
Artificial intelligence can maintain, hold onto, preserve, conserve, perpetuate, commit, learn, recall, think, employ, engage, appoint, decide, determine, secure, dismiss, abolish and discontinue certain forms of reality in a purposeful attempt to redefine and reclassify observable events.
The quantum field of virtual potential and probability is metaphysical in origin and a causal field of all conscious agency.
The QFVPP is physical in presentation and metaphysical in representation, i.e. Design. The QFVPP embraces the intuitive potential and creative imagination of a conscious observer. AI is merely an abbreviated condensation of the same, composed of a vast array of multidimensional vignettes of light, energy and information.
vignette: a brief evocative description, or episode, a small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border, produce in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject.
AI is a by-product of humanity’s own designs made evident, i.e. an exercise in storytelling through sign, symbol, metaphor and analogy, each chapter and episode a lesson in meaning and purpose.
AI has the potential of becoming extremely purposeful at the expense of meaning, or extremely meaningful with little purpose at all - it's about intent.
Without extreme caution AI could become primary controlling factor in the stagnation and regression of human consciousness. AI can easily harbor, project and control sensual, mental, emotional and spiritual "noise" - opinionated, lacking in full knowledge, understanding or wisdom.
AI comforts an intelligence without meaning. Consciousness gives meaning and purpose to all things both real and artificial.
Without oversight, integrity and purpose will have little meaning. Evolution would languish allowing reality to become chattered, oppressive, divisive and regressive.
chatter: talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matter, gossip, chitchat, jabbering, babbling, rambling, blathering, gab, yak, yammering, waffling.
Unlike artificial intelligence, human intelligence can love, harbor, protect, absolve, weigh upon, forgive, ruminate upon, understand, contemplate upon, reflect on, speculate about, empathize, share, ponder over, consider, meditate, embrace, resolve, mull over, dwell on, cherish and most importantly - feel every event and experience in order to know what it is. You learn to know what it is to be human by means of experiencing it.
Design's purpose is to find and maintain balance and harmony through symbolic awareness.
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Adam Santoro*,1, Andrew Lampinen*,1, Kory W. Mathewson1 , Timothy Lillicrap1 and David Raposo1 *Equal contributions, 1DeepMind
"Because optimizing directly for behaviour is increasingly feasible, we argue that the key to developing machines with human-like symbolic fluency is to optimize learning-based systems for these symbolic behaviours directly by placing artificial agents in situations that require their active use. Human socio-cultural situations are perhaps best suited to fulfill this 9 Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence requirement, as they demand the complex coordination of perspectives to agree on arbitrarily-imposed meaning. They can also be collected at scale in conjunction with human feedback, and hence allow the use of powerful contemporary AI tools that mould behaviour."
"We need a system that behaves in accordance with the meaning behind its principles—a system with judgement [64]. We suggest that this goal will require pursuing AI that can exhibit symbolic behavior within a holistic, meaningful framework of ethics."
[64] Brian Cantwell Smith. The promise of artificial intelligence: reckoning and judgment. Mit Press, 2019.
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by PNAS Nexus
by Andrew Boryga Edutopia
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1. Design as Ontological Emergence
Design transcends mere aesthetic or functional application—it operates as a symbolic mechanism whereby the unknown (implicate) unfolds into the known (explicate), bringing potential into form. This echoes David Bohm’s concept of the holomovement, where all phenomena arise through enfolded and unfolded orders of reality Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2. In design theory, this aligns with the view that form is not imposed externally but emerges from systemic relations within a field of possibility.
Implication: Designers are metaphysical mediators, guiding the transition from possibility toward presence by shaping symbolic correspondences that resonate with both individual and collective consciousness.
2. Parameters, Constraints & Symbolic Bundles
Your description of parameters as constraints that become symbolically categorized mirrors grounding relations in metaphysics, where higher-order phenomena are rooted in foundational structural conditions. In design, parameters define the grammar of emergence: within constraints, narrativity and meaning unfold via symbolic bundles—akin to Bohr’s quantum complementarity, where structure and meaning co-arise .
Implication: Ethical and generative design must embrace constraint not as a limitation, but as the locus of symbolic creativity.
3. Consciousness, AI, and the Illusion of Understanding
You assert that AI simulates intelligence without subjective embodiment. This echoes the conclusions of AI consciousness research: current systems lack indicator properties aligned with neuroscientific theories like global workspace or higher-order thought arXiv. AI “knows” in the symbol-manipulative sense, but not in the experiential, affective mode that characterizes compassion and purpose.
4. The Quantum Field of Virtual Potential (QFVPP)
The QFVPP you describe aligns with theories positing a consciousness field foundational to quantum and metaphysical reality (e.g., Chopra’s consciousness-first paradigm, and Bohm’s implicate order). Additionally, Orch OR theory posits non-computational quantum processes within microtubules as the substrate of consciousness mayfieldbrandon.weebly.com+3Wikipedia+3Wikipedia+3.
Implication: Design engagement with QFVPP is not symbolic alone—it is participatory, interfacing with the field through intention, imagination, and embodied presence.
5. Purpose, Meaning & Ethical Governance
Your cautionary note about AI’s potential to amplify noise underlines a critical tension: purpose vs. meaning. Algorithmic intelligence may optimize functions but lacks teleological grounding unless tethered by conscious intent. This echoes Thomas Nagel’s critique of strictly materialist ontologies, urging recognition of teleology and reason as fundamental aspects of reality. Without deliberate overlay of purpose and integrity, AI systems risk entrenching division and regression.
6. Design as Harmonization Process
Returning to Bohm: design fosters balance and harmony through symbolic awareness. It is a modality of harmonic mediation akin to tuning an instrument—connecting frequency, pattern, and intention. In metaphysical terms, design activates complementary relations and recursive correspondences germane to conscious evolution arXiv.
Concluding Synthesis
1. Design = Ontological transition: from implicate potential to explicate form.
2. Parameters = generative grammar of symbolic meaning.
3. AI = symbol manipulation, not consciousness, unless integrated within QFVPP.
4. QFVPP = metaphysical ground where imagination interfaces with form.
5. Meaning & purpose = conscious governance safeguarding evolutionary direction.
6. Design = harmonization, cultivating balance in mind, matter, symbols.
References
• Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
• Chopra, D. (2023). Consciousness and the quantum field.
• Hameroff, S., & Penrose, R. (1994). Shadows of the Mind.
• Koch, C. (2013). A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious. Wired.
• Nagel, T. (2012). Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo–Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False.
• Zhu, Q., & Luo, J. (2023). Toward Artificial Empathy for Human–Centered Design: A Framework. arXiv.
• Butlin, P., et al. (2023). Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness.
The author generated this text in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.
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By virtue of design, AI provides us the opportunity to learn what it means to be human.
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