link-> A reflection on Biologist Michael Levin ideas. What are we, really?
Whether something (a hurricane, a galaxy, the universe) has agency isn’t a philosophical guess. It’s a question for experiments—can it learn, adapt, or pursue goals? We don’t know until we test it.
Define probabilities relative to an observer? Non-Markovian processes, where the future depends on the entire past, not just the current state? Connection to Non-Ergodicity? Case Example: In fluctuating space-time, the ground truth of probability dissolves.
Reality is a user-friendly fiction, symbols our minds use to navigate an inscrutable reality. Extending this idea to a "Primordial Consciousness", reality might become from a living network of conscious agents that are all one being, in a complex interaction that enables experiences, and life.
Does the paradox vindicate an ontology where reality is perspectival (varying with the observer’s viewpoint) rather than absolute? These paradoxes may reveal that what we take to be "objective reality" is better modeled as an observer-centric construction.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced to exhibit behaviors that challenge the notion they are merely next-word prediction engines. What are these minds? This will be an honest and rigorous journey into known and unknown aspects of our collective being.