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Societies have ideas that often conflict

by PLEWEY Sep 6, 2023 3 Comments 3 Links
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I would go with Hoffman’s version – really it just seems to be a mathematical pattern as that’s all we are equipped to perceive.
He also says that we should halt AI research (so our opponents get ahead of us). I guess he is glad the US developed the bomb rather than let the NAZIs win.
Tegmark contradicts himself though – he opens eyes but doesn’t provide a definitive picture – and he doesn’t seem to see a problem with it. Just sayin’
Back in 1986, swami Chinmayananda said ‘A human is matter groomed to consciousness’. I was mesmerised by this statement extrapolated from the Upanishads and still am. Here’s the video from the OP.