I Am The Thought You Are Now

The Strange Flavour Of Ai Work Is That People Try To Put Together Long Sets Of Rules In Strict Formalisms Which Tell Inflexible Machines How To Be Flexible.

You Make Decisions, Take Actions, Affect The World, Receive Feedback From The World, Incorporate It Into Yourself, Then The Updated 'you' Makes More Decisions, And So Forth, 'round And 'round.

Many People Believe That Our Lives End Not When We Die But When The Very Last Person Who Knew Us Dies. Memory Is Part Of It, Yes, But I Think It's Much More Than Memory.

The Key Question Is, No Matter How Much You Absorb Of Another Person, Can You Have Absorbed So Much Of Them That When That Primary Brain Perishes, You Can Feel That That Person Did Not Totally Perish From The Earth... Because They Live On In A 'second Neural Home'?... In The Wake Of A Human Being's Death, What Survives Is A Set Of Afterglows, Some Brighter And Some Dimmer, In The Collective Brains Of Those Who Were Dearest To Them... Though The Primary Brain Has Been Eclipsed, There Is, In Those Who Remain... A Collective Corona That Still Glows.

The Strange Loop Phenomenon Occurs Whenever, By Moving Upwards (or Downwards) Through Levels Of Some Hierarchial System, We Unexpectedly Find Ourselves Right Back Where We Started.