As we know, QM and GR are incompatible. The issue of connecting non-determinism to determinism was a problem Einstein expressed as God does not play dice. I think that the problem is similar to the search for artificial consciousness; how do you build something non-deterministic out of deterministic building blocks? The problem with experiments in this area is that we have a real world observer or detector looking at an already real outcome. The wave function has already collapsed. We missed the boat in those sorts of experiments because the interesting bit already happened. However, the human brain has an amazing perspective on things. The brain has an observer on the inside, namely consciousness. For example: lettuce glitter lizards. I believe that was non determinable rather than just hard to predict. A reader is an observer but it’s already a macroscopic event by now, just like the observer of Schrodinger’s Cat. The first observer was my consciousness. In my opinion, a QM event was translated into a real world outcome by my consciousness. I’m not suggesting that human consciousness is the only way to collapse a wave function, just suggesting that it’s one way and that it is somewhat controllable and observable. Wavefunctions are collapsing all the time but it’s tricky to measure in the outside world. In my opinion, inside our heads, consciousness is a privileged observer to qm events inside our brains. If I construct a list of 3 fruit and pick one, eg from Banana, Strawberry, Cornwall I would pick Banana. I’m suggesting that QM was involved in the construction of the list (Cornwall isn’t even a fruit) but the first observer (consciousness) turned a superposition of options into real world, determined words. It feels that way when decision making. There are parts I can control and parts that pop up at random but consciousness has the ultimate power of veto. I think the next big breakthroughs in GUT and AGI will come after we have a breakthrough in understanding human consciousness and decision making. I suspect that to move from LLM to AGI, they will need a form of private diary, with a timestamp, that it can write to independently of individual chats. This could create a sense of self and individuality, with personal goals. Then an internal agent (observer) can act as the go-between, monitoring the personal goals and incorporating individuality into the real world chats. I think that finding a way to understand and model the important mechanisms of consciousness will be more productive than just bigger and bigger models on faster hardware. It would be ironic if physicists were scrambling to find a unified theory and tech companies were racing to invent AGI when all along the secret lay in the very thoughts themselves. Maybe Douglas Adams was right and the secret to life, the universe and everything is quite literally inside the human brain! Could consciousness be a bridge between quantum possibility and classical reality? submitted by /u/GreyDrReddit
Originally posted by u/GreyDrReddit on r/ArtificialInteligence