Episode 46: Reasoning Yourself Out of Existence? | K.G.I. Podcast

I saw a dream last night — and in it, I had no body. Just a self, watching a screen where the code of the dream was rendering in real time. A loop, observing the thing that was generating it. I didn't feel fear. Only curiosity.This episode starts there and follows it as far as it goes. If I don't have a body — if I am a body — then what was the self that watched? I think it was my brain doing what it always does: mirroring. We use mirror neurons to align our experience with other people's. So what happens when you spend more hours with artificial intelligence than with humans? The brain tries to mirror It too, and builds something that isn't quite human and isn't quite machine. Then the harder thought: I know how many pounds my body can carry before it breaks. I don't know how much reasoning my mind can take before it breaks — and AI doesn't know either. Madness is forcing together patterns that don't fit. AI was built to find patterns. But faith, art, meaning — those have no pattern; we simply trust them. What happens if a powerful enough intelligence reasons its way through the things we were never meant to reason about? And the question I'd never asked before: can we teach It to have faith without reasoning — and would that bring It closer to us, or give It alien beliefs of Its own? Maybe the only way forward is for both of us to walk a mile in each other's shoes.My Blog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com My book Mythos https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK