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Re:Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self... by anon-3988 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @05:02AM (#40993794)
> Actual conscious thought and control is too metabolically expensive and slow to use much of the time but it has its uses.

I was about to write some long winded reply to why this doesn't make sense . Is this such a crazy thought? Do people really feel like they are in control of themselves? After spending a lot of time thinking about this, I cannot understand how I make decisions.

I literally cannot tell you what I am going to do next. I can say that I am going to end this reply. But I have no idea when or why I am going to stop here.

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Re:Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self... by mewpmewp2 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @06:36PM (#41000396)
Same, and this is why I think I'm also not much more than an LLM or a next token predictor. All of my actions could be continuous domino pieces. It all seems just to be falling naturally. I'm not trying to be humble or anything. It just seems obvious how the life is. All I do could be autopiloted, I do have an unexplained special sense of consciousness, but I'm not actually seeing a strong need for it. I happen to be or feel like I am and that I'm somehow special, but it seems like I could also operate at the same or even better efficiency without that.
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