Bravo! One of your more insightful and entertaining dialogues with ChatGPT. I have taken notes.
HOWEVER I would caution against being reductionist. By your same logic, genocide in Gaza=entropy. Human free will is an illusion brought about by entropy. Good and Evil are merely different perspectives of an entropic system because in physics an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy.
Everything is connected to everything. So you could follow a thread from any of the laws (forces) of physics ~gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear etc and by a convoluted logical extension deduce everything else as being inevitable.
It reminds me a bit of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the super computer 'Deep Thought':
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.”
I think I would rather hold on to my cherished illusions ~ because entropy. God bless you.
Agreed. My point is it is easy to over simplify. If we hold that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, then this begs the question “What is the force opposing entropy?”. I have read somewhere that it is in fact “time” and that time itself is a force, not just a yardstick against which other phenomena are measured. A creative life-giving force as opposed to entropy which results in heat death.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (Act 1 Scene 5 ‘Hamlet’) He is suggesting that the human imagination is limited and that there are many things we don’t know, things that haven’t been discovered and, in fact, things we haven’t even dreamt of. Perhaps things that we could never possibly understand given our limited perspective and ability to comprehend.
Still, an interesting and thought provoking article. Thank you. : )
Very interesting AI discussion: Frank Wright interview with Alex Macris from Substack's Tree of Woe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn5seRt-dAc
Bravo! One of your more insightful and entertaining dialogues with ChatGPT. I have taken notes.
HOWEVER I would caution against being reductionist. By your same logic, genocide in Gaza=entropy. Human free will is an illusion brought about by entropy. Good and Evil are merely different perspectives of an entropic system because in physics an entropic force acting in a system is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the entire system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy.
Everything is connected to everything. So you could follow a thread from any of the laws (forces) of physics ~gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear etc and by a convoluted logical extension deduce everything else as being inevitable.
It reminds me a bit of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the super computer 'Deep Thought':
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.”
I think I would rather hold on to my cherished illusions ~ because entropy. God bless you.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/when-facts-get-in-the-way
No, I never said humans were mere reverse entropy machines. I distinguished between impersonal physics and human choice.
Agreed. My point is it is easy to over simplify. If we hold that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, then this begs the question “What is the force opposing entropy?”. I have read somewhere that it is in fact “time” and that time itself is a force, not just a yardstick against which other phenomena are measured. A creative life-giving force as opposed to entropy which results in heat death.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (Act 1 Scene 5 ‘Hamlet’) He is suggesting that the human imagination is limited and that there are many things we don’t know, things that haven’t been discovered and, in fact, things we haven’t even dreamt of. Perhaps things that we could never possibly understand given our limited perspective and ability to comprehend.
Still, an interesting and thought provoking article. Thank you. : )
Brilliant 👏.