Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models
by ly3xqhl8g9 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @03:58PM
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One primary explanation of ourselves is that there is in fact a "self" there, we feel this "self" as being permanent, continuous through time, yet we are absolutely sure that is a lie: there are no continuous processes in the entire universe, energy itself is quantized.
In the morning when we wake up, we are "booting" up the memories the brain finds and we believe that we have persisted through time, from yesterday to today, yet we are absolutely sure that is a lie: just look at an Alzheimer patient.
We are feeling this self as if it's somewhere above the neck and we feel like this self is looking at the world and sees "out there", yet we are absolutely sure that is a lie: our senses are being overflown by inputs and the brain filters them, shapes a model of the world, and presents that model to the internal model of itself, which gets so immersed into model of the world that starts to believe the model is indeed the world, until the first bistable image [1] breaks the model down.
In the morning when we wake up, we are "booting" up the memories the brain finds and we believe that we have persisted through time, from yesterday to today, yet we are absolutely sure that is a lie: just look at an Alzheimer patient.
We are feeling this self as if it's somewhere above the neck and we feel like this self is looking at the world and sees "out there", yet we are absolutely sure that is a lie: our senses are being overflown by inputs and the brain filters them, shapes a model of the world, and presents that model to the internal model of itself, which gets so immersed into model of the world that starts to believe the model is indeed the world, until the first bistable image [1] breaks the model down.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amanda-Parker-14/public...