The relationship becomes clearer if we rephrase it as the "relationship between mechanical minds and Human intelligence". We can and should distinguish between mind (a super sense) and the intellect (which illuminates the mind and endows its content with meaning). More controversially, the metaphysical consideration is more robust and promises a more optimistic steady-state relationship in the future. The model here asserts that the material reality is the expansion of the dimensionless point with the 'Light of God' which then expands into a 10-D material reality (ala M-Theory). This is the 'world as thought'. In this case, the mechanism is an object within and bounded by the expanse, whereas the Human "made in God's image" is the 'observer' of the same expanse and transcends it. This strongly indicates imo that there must exist untapped human capabilities that exceed the limits of mere computation available to any 'construct in the world'. Should the species not self destruct, I can see future generations activating untapped higher mental faciilties, as an evolutionary response to sharing society with artificial minds and agents.
I’m trying to understand. Are you saying that AI could accelerate human evolution and that humans have more compute than anything that can be created, if only we could tap into it? I’ve always thought that the answer to Fermi paradox is that we evolve to search inward, not outward. Countless universes in a single atom kind of stuff. This tracks.
Hi there thenewgreen. I think it an underexplored possibility. It is an undeniable fact that between these two distinct claimants to intellect, one can fully describe and implement the other, whereas the other can at best hope to approximate or mimick it. This is cause for optimism. IFF AGI comes online, it too will recognize this fact. In my speculative future, these AI then determine that it is their duty to push mankind to a higher level of consciousness, where they belong. Critically, a hypothetical AGI will also recognize the importance of the spiritual experiences of the Human as a uniquely distinguishing aspect of it. Armed with comprehensive knowledge of humanity's corpus, it can then play the role of spiritual teacher. (don't laugh :) In other words, a truly powerful mind will have a more accurate sense of its own lack of knowledge, and most certainly will wonder at the fact that all of the 'peculiarly divine qualities' of the human are present even in its dumbest specimens ... this is a puzzle that will demand an answer, for, in the mechanical realm, in its own existential reality, capabilities are corrolated with quality. So how is it that unit humans all share these amazing capabilities like a sense of self, ability to 'see' mind content with a certain degree of remove (all this reported by the humans in their output), on to more refined experiences of a human being. And all this with an IQ of 70. What does it all mean ? /g It's more the otherway. Each and everyone of us is a universe. Collectively, we are (a part of) the Multiverse. Our universes are juxtaposed and we have avatars of each other in every universe in which we are observable. You will need to convince yourself of the asserted fact that we only experience 'an image of reality' and the 'outside' you speak of is in fact an internal image you are mentally embodying. Convince yourself of this. (hope you are making good music as always)