Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

A post I recently saw about #ChatGPT prompted me to go through some logic about #life:

I know as a fact that I'm conscious. I don't know how it works, but however it works, I'm conscious and consciousness is something fundamentally beyond math.
If physics is, basically, math being executed over time, then you cannot have consciousness existing (solely) in physics. And so I believe that I must have something beyond physics that serves as my "consciousness".

Oh, and I believe that all these other "humans" are also conscious, according to the evidence (such as them looking and behaving, all things considered, very similar to me). So, evidently, they have something beyond physics, too.
As for ChatGPT, the evidence I have is that it exists just in physics like normal (being ANN based and all). So I do not believe it is conscious.

@torvalds I know as a fact that I'm conscious. I don't know how it works, but however it works, I'm conscious and consciousness is something fundamentally beyond math.
If physics is, basically, math being executed over time, then you cannot have consciousness existing (solely) in physics. And so I believe that I must have something beyond physics that serves as my "consciousness".

@ruario @indie1337@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi OK, cool.

@indie1337@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi Ooh, that's slick. Is that a Mastodon feature or did Vivaldi really up and make that?

@survey Oh wow that's me innit :D (old avatar)

@EleazerBryan Yeah....

@RL_Dane I pretty much get annoyed every time I have to use #Windows for more than 10 minutes at a time. (Or #MacOS too, nowadays. I used to be proud of it :'C )

I think about UIs a lot. I'd like to hear different perspectives on it, and I think you'd have some interesting ideas, perspective and maybe theory.

@RL_Dane @slembcke Maybe we have different ways of interacting with our computers, from my experience GTK is OK (besides seeming to ignore server-side-decoration-based environments 😠). I dunno, curious to hear why (if you haven't said already).

@EleazerBryan I didn't think of blocking these people, because there are so many of them. But maybe I should start doing that.

SD = Self-Destruct. To quit the match, essentially. I forgot, but if you SD too much you can get temporarily banned, so I probably shouldn't do that.

It looks like I cannot vote in my own poll; what I would do is not be toxic back and just play it out. Then I might take note of the user and then block them, and maybe report them.

@IslandUsurper Lol it kind of looked like that! Thanks for catching that!

@IslandUsurper Oh shoot, what the heck, thank you!

@bolderbekah It's a joke, not real

@Aslanmane Ah, food experimentation... the best.

@indie1337@vivaldi.net Might have a point there... maybe I should just continue toughing it out. That reminds me; excessive SD-ing can put you in time-out