It always begins with a thought. But where do these "thoughts" come from? This we do not know for absolute just yet. But it happens nonetheless and we do not have a choice in the thought, only how we process it. From thoughts we create. Even something quite possibly new, something not one human has ever witnessed on this planet to this day. I want to look at this unknown, unchartered territory and some relevant side notes. Ironically the "uncharted territory" we have to navigate through is our own neural complex and 'answer elusive' minds. Some may not like the use of the word uncharted. Uncharted will however be, for reference to these blogs, considered thoughts and ideas that maybe we have not thought of or maybe looking at the same thought but possibly from a new perspective. "None of us is as smart as all of us" kind of approach. Quite possibly here and there along this journey, we may discover a glimpse at a thought, a question or better yet, a conversation that has not been had just yet but possibly was needed.
Organic Thoughts
Organic in that they are human created (because we have not invented the technology to talk to other species fluently just yet). Thoughts are those individual building blocks of everything we know in our own little worlds. No two thoughts are exactly the same. Your thoughts are yours alone until you decide to provide others with the output that you perceive to have processed. I will qualify 'exactly the same' as occurring at the same time, in the exact same environment and under the same conditions. So the thought, even if similar in basic context, is not the same in the way that it came from different sources under different views of the thought itself. We can see the same event but process the information differently from each other. Is that not a tiny glitch in the matrix in and of itself? Before we go off track, go back to the thought. The words now hitting our screen behind the eyes and then being processed into an elaborate environment we call 'life'. Our 'lives' are then just, a series of strings of neural text forming thought, expanding into an idea, and possibly much much more.
Your thoughts are the core of what is 'you' (separate blog) and is the only thing you own and no-one can ever take from you. Your thoughts are also subjective to your own experience, making every experience in your life, 'your' movie. An interesting observation of this statement is that even though your thoughts are in your head and cannot be taken from you (unless you share them), did you really create them? Some thoughts just 'come to you'. So where did they come from? Deep in the neural complex we call our brains, something has triggered the thought. This type of thought is not to be confused with thoughts that you grab hold of and use to make something or just process into ideas, the thoughts I am talking about are the ones when you close your eyes, say to meditate and thoughts begin to arise. Some obviously triggered by your environment, but some just come into consciousness out of nowhere. Neuroscientists and philosophers have been researching this for some time and although advancements in medical technology are helping scientists get closer, they still have not cracked this code. Maybe someday soon.
Being Lost in Thought(s)
This means there is a thought out there in the darkness of the grey matter, or at the very least, you perceive to be out there and you just have not located where you put it. Once you find it, we can discuss it. Like being lost in a crowd at a concert, looking for a penny you dropped and not even knowing where you dropped it. I used the penny as an example because it is the least valuable thing to for you to go through that much trouble to find. And maybe like a fleeting thought, you don't bother and just move on. Like the color of font on text you are processing behind your eyes (you just stopped and looked didn't you?), it is unnecessary information needed to process the thought like the 'penny for your thoughts'. And what to make of suggestive items, thoughts that get placed in your head without you having the ability to block them (like the text color example)? Belief systems like faith or the possibility of the matrix? Maybe it will be an AI++ that gives us these answers, how would that compute for the ultimate in irony?
AI and Data Processing
All this data processing of thoughts is also the basic principle for computers, software and algorithmic programs. With a couple exceptions. 1) The computer / processor has no control over the input we choose to give it although and may not have what is needed to process the input.
2) The computer / processor does not have a choice as to how it provides the output (ie spoken, written or digitally).
3) Finally (for the sake of the blog) the computer also does not have a choice as to when it provides the output.
Although cleverly created software can include some of these features. The only real limitation might be the processing power but the computer can't just hold onto the information until it decides to give it to you . They cant 'hold that thought' just yet.
4) The algorithm won't get writers block or get lost in its own thoughts, otherwise it crashes (thankfully we do not do that).
Then is it plausible to say that if we cannot understand where our own thoughts come from, or even how some of them come to exist, and these ideas can go so deep as to create our entire lives, then we cannot possibly imagine a way to program an algorithm to have the experience of random thoughts without some flaws along the way? Algorithms are a system of syntax or data that is analyzed, processed so that the algorithm begins to learn from all of the data / information that it is given access to. (hold on to that thought, we need to revisit that for sure) Now, all algorithms process at a much faster rate and arguably with a much better process than we do. The computation power of a computer is just faster than biological systems (brains). The computer also does not require a paycheck, food, sleep, take bathroom breaks or get distracted by its environment. As the algorithm processes data and then processes the outcomes from the data, it learns new ways to "beat the game". This would seem to imply the grounds for producing thinking or reasoning patterns at the least. Ideas of a new way that it had not known about before it started. But a human had to provide the input and plug in the power for the algorithm to be created. Not quite the same as with organic intelligence. However, it is notable to say that the newly 'learned' process may also be able to be considered as a thought because the algorithm also had no control over its creation. And whom will be the benefactor for these ideas? The algorithm designer? Corporate private owners or society with no financial benefactor?
And so there are a few of my 'thoughts' to think about until we meet again.
Drop a comment before heading to the next page and there is always room for conversation here, lets just keep our thoughts on track and civil so we can have good conversation along the way!
Thank you for taking this journey with me,
Organic Quentin
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