[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 17:48:35 UTC 2023


On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:06 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 1. Every known physical law is computable.
>
> 2. It follows then that universe as we know it could be run as a giant
> computer simulation.
>

Not quite.  We know that there are some things that do not quite run
according to 100% completely identified physical laws.  For example, we do
not yet know how to compute the exact timing of decay of an individual
subatomic particle; we know the approximate time ranges and probabilities,
but these are qualities of large sets of particles, not precise predictions
for sets of one particle.  While it is possible that further exploration
will find these things to be computable physical laws too, there is as yet
room enough for the possibility of uncomputable physical laws to fill in
these corners.
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