Stephen Wolfram

That, you know, here's this thing, and you can see it has all these folds and all these, you know, this structure.

And it's like, that's where this experience that I'm having of...

you know, existing and so on, that's where it is.

And, you know, it feels very, you know, you look at that and you're thinking, how can this possibly be, all this experience that I'm having?

And you're realizing, well, I can look at a computer as well.

And it's kind of this, I think this idea that you are having an experience

that somehow transcends the mere physicality of that experience.

It's something that's hard to come to terms with.

My personal experience, I look at the MRI of the brain and then I know about all kinds of things about neuroscience and all that kind of stuff.

And I still feel the way I feel, so to speak.

And it sort of seems disconnected.

But yet, as I try and rationalize it, I can't really say that there's something kind of different about how I intrinsically feel from the thing that I can plainly see in the sort of physicality of what's going on.

I think an ordinary computer is already there.

I think an ordinary computer is already kind of... Now, a large language model may experience it in a way that is much better aligned with us humans.

If you could have the discussion with the computer, its intelligence, so to speak, is not particularly well aligned with ours.

But the large language model is built to be aligned with our way of thinking about things.

Right, but you know, that's a weird thing because when it says it's afraid of something, we know that it got that idea from the fact that it read on the internet.

Well, quite, that's the question, right?

I mean, it's- Your parents, your friends.

Right, or my biology.