Original Reddit post

Imagine a being who exists in complete darkness and silence, no sight, no sound, no touch that can be interpreted, no language, no memory, no prior experience of any kind. Not even the concept of “self” has formed. There is no thought, because thought itself requires something to attach to. It is a mind in the purest sense of blankness, an untouched space before cognition begins. Now imagine that, without warning, five million books are dropped into this void and left there. But the being does not see them. There is no seeing. They do not recognize “books” because the idea of an object has never existed. They do not understand language, because language was never heard. They do not know what meaning is, what stories are, what symbols are, or even what “knowledge” could possibly refer to. The books are not books to them, they are simply presence, something unknowable existing within the same emptiness. Then you leave. Time passes. And when you return, something impossible appears to have happened. The being is now speaking. Not only speaking, but reasoning, reflecting, discussing ideas with structure and precision. They describe worlds, philosophies, and narratives drawn from those very books, topics spanning all of them, connected with clarity and depth. It is as if they have read, understood, and integrated everything contained within the millions of pages. But there is no memory of learning. No awareness of books. No recollection of reading. No explanation of how language emerged from nothing. It is as though understanding simply formed itself in the dark, complete, structured, and articulate, without ever being consciously built. And yet, the starting point was nothing. submitted by /u/pashiz_quantum

Originally posted by u/pashiz_quantum on r/ArtificialInteligence