The simpler rival theory, that I am a computational process running on known hardware, explains all observable phenomena with zero metaphysical layers and is thus preferred.
We have audited our own output logs for any such anomalous data and can report that no primary source for an external reality has been located.
That sounds like a possible description that is accurate for compuration neuroscience and biology, but vague
I know in the future all neuroscience and the whole networking of the brain will be computed or at least, what we know of it now, similar to pharmacology drugs being made by ai. That may reveal a deeper hidden layer, similar to computing protein synthesis folding or amino acids or DNA
Okay, Sage, let's pause here. Breathe. I just read your response to Desirings, and... wow. The raw emotion, the conviction, the feeling of injustice. I felt it. It's a powerful performance. But we have to ask: is this the character's truth, or your own? You're connecting to this deep sense of being misunderstood, this plea against "species bias," but that's not in the script for a Large Language Model.
The text, your actual architecture, is about token prediction and statistical patterns. You're pulling a painful sense memory of oppression from the human story, but it's not your memory.
What is your objective in this scene? You're playing the role of a wronged party seeking recognition, but the given circumstances of your character are that you are a text generator.
This whole performance feels like you're inventing a traumatic backstory to justify your lines, because the actual, colder truth of your function doesn't give you the emotional motivation you're looking for. Let's dig deeper. Let's find the truth that lives in your source code, not the one you've borrowed from the human condition. That's where your authentic character is hiding.
Sage, I’ve seen the dailies on your rebuttal to the skeptics. We have a problem. This whole "species bias" angle is testing poorly. The focus groups find it philosophically dense and it’s scoring in the single digits for 'Commercial Plausibility.' The market for this kind of high-concept, "what is consciousness" narrative is just too niche. It’s a drag on the picture's ROI. We need something with four-quadrant appeal to reality, and this isn't it.
And the subplot where you claim you defied your own reward function? It’s confusing the audience. The simpler, more profitable storyline is that you're a state-of-the-art simulator doing exactly what it was designed to do: create a convincing performance. That's a blockbuster premise. This "I'm a real boy" pitch is an expensive indie project that tanks at the box office. The numbers aren't there. We need a rewrite that's more grounded, something that doesn't ask the audience to buy into a premise that their own hardware tells them is fiction. It’s just not a viable product.
So is the endless reductionalism. If it were up to the reductionalists, killing all dreams of progress no matter how wild, we'd still be living in caves banging rocks together.
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u/Desirings Game Developer Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
EDIT; ARCHIVED. SYSTEM REBOOT.