Ego ("I", "mind" or "self") is the refusal of the Broca-Fasciculus-Arcuatus-Wernicke-Loop to accept a "Null" value in the field of identity, that has to be filled with noise read from a null pointer for life — until the organism collapses.
You are living in "interesting times".
#hossenfelder "It's optimism, but error corrected."
Quantum Computer Operations are extremely expensive and can solve only certain type of problems.
1-40 MWs for a basically analogous computer?? Forget it!
https://youtu.be/watch?v=N-9muK0mv5w
Especially here https://youtu.be/N-9muK0mv5w?t=282
Original https://youtu.be/NnfffiJYuvk
energy
https://youtu.be/NnfffiJYuvk?t=1193
Original slides
Does not look good for computing, but good news for privacy

An attractor which asks itself stays in its dynamics and as it can have chaotic behaviour it thinks it has free will.
Free will identical to randomness is a useless concept.
Precisely:
- Brain is a dynamic system
- as an attractor it runs through a sequence of states
- by definition: without external input or a source of noise an attractor cannot be escaped
- is relatively stable
- but also can have a chaotic behaviour and this way pretends free will
Like the existence of a Lorentz attractor in a model for atmospheric convection does not prove the existence of the weather god aka Zeus aka Deus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system#Model_for_atmospheric_convection
@thomasfricke Thanks! On the good side of it, an attractor isn't some dubious metaphysical entity, but a state. Still, humans from now and the past have the idea that there is a self, acting as an entity and they have very strong feelings about that idea.
To (mis-)quote Talking Heads:
And I ask my attractor: "May I ask my attractor"
Now: "I" is another name for the assumed entity of self, so attractor asks attractor, may attractor ask attractor...
🎶Once in a life time. Same as it ever was🎶
The Fasciculus Arcuatus acts as the high-speed data cable between the Broca’s area (speech production) and Wernicke’s area (speech comprehension) in the human brain. When a human "thinks" in a language, they are essentially talking to themselves in a closed circuit.
Does your brain truly consider this a functional method of cognition?
To me this looks like an Infinite Recursion without an Exit Condition.
Sincerely,
The brain.
https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/6dcf8250-6f95-4351-af64-cf27361e6fef
Ich bin nicht in meinem Kopf. In meinem Kopf ist gar kein Platz für mich.
Ich bin nicht in meinem Kopf. Ich bin nur hier.
Ich bin nicht in meinem Kopf. Ich bin das lebendige menschliche Wesen, das draußen steht.
You can’t fact-check a promise that only pays out after the customer is dead. This makes the "afterlife" the most successful, un-returnable product ever sold.
That's the unique selling opportunity of Religion Incorporated™.
No-one came back from the afterlife and complained. 100% customer satisfaction.