Dan Smitham

@QuantumTumbler You should read my book on the philosophy of the mathematics of consciousness. It presents a very similar idea. drive.google.com/file/d/1HZj5Le…

The universe doesn’t start as matter. It starts as possibility. Waves first. Reality second. What we call “matter” isn’t the starting point, it’s what’s left after interactions settle things down. At the fundamental level, physics doesn’t deal in solid objects. It deals in fields, amplitudes, and probabilities. Not things, but ways things could be. Before interaction, a system isn’t “this or that.” It’s a spread of possibilities described by a wavefunction. And then something happens. Interaction. Measurement. Coupling. Call it what you want, but that’s the moment where possibilities stop being interchangeable and start producing outcomes. Not everything survives that process. Most of it cancels out, decoheres, or never becomes accessible at all. What we observe is the tiny slice that makes it through. That’s what we call reality. So it’s not that the universe is made of solid building blocks that occasionally behave like waves. It’s the opposite. The wave-like structure is the full description. “Particles” are what emerge when that structure is filtered through interaction. That’s why you don’t observe reality directly. You observe what survives contact with your measurement. Everything else is still there in the math but it’s no longer part of your accessible world. So when people ask “what is the universe made of?” they’re already skipping a step. It’s not made of things. It’s made of possibilities that get reduced into things. Waves first. Reality second.

@EvieParkour Dunning Kruger effect is a real thing.

Homeschooling needs to be made illegal - full stop. The only exception to such a law would be if you can PROVE your child is mentally or physically incapable of attending public school. In which case at home visits from a public educator would be permitted.

@thebestindio Where blasting?

Un tipo random saca un cuchillo a un hombre delante de su mujer y el hombre saca una pistola y le echa.

@AdamLaneSmith Ego

Divorce is not normal. Love shouldn’t die. What’s killing it?

@festus23619 The mind blowing part of that is that from the perspective of a photon, the trip is instantaneous. The thing is, in order to be measured as instantaneous, the journey must also be finite, with both a beginning and end, event and observer.

At the speed of light, the Adromeda galaxy is just a minute away 🤔 Physicists, what do you think??

@JacobtheGamer_ Very true. I always tell my kids, finish your thoughts. Never leave unfinished thoughts to roam your mind like they own the place.

@SmithamDan Both words kinda work well, sometimes it gives perspective.

How do you keep the dark thought from overwhelming you?

@MateiCananau Let's hear it then.

"We still don't know what consciousness is". No - you don't know what anything is from a materialist worldview. All you have are mere observations, not the actualities themselves.

@RGRyan777 Used to do it every summer when camping with the family.

Could you use this if you had to?

@AFpost Define consciousness. Then we can talk about what's conscious.

Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost

@FirstDoctor I'm good at laying stone.

If I ask you to teach me what you are very good at, what will you teach me? I'm reading every reply and quote.

@JacobtheGamer_ *graze

@JacobtheGamer_ Don't fight them. Let them come in, gaze for a while, then leave.

@rand_longevity No

do you think AI has consciousness?

@MartinaMarkota I still love that you have an art barn. I'm so happy for you guys.

Some photos I took the other in the art barn in an outfit I made

@TheGBreaker Love

What’s something that AI can never steal?

@glbaumann @OldHollowTree Blessed childhood.

@OldHollowTree I have a match for her!

My five year old daughter inspecting and installing the first of twenty four queens.

@OldHollowTree I showed my wife her little beekeeper outfit, she now thinks it's the most adorable thing ever.

@nyaaaaa999666 I check their profile. If it's not all reposts, but instead is original thought out posts, I'll follow back.

無言フォローして頂いた対応は？ みなさん無言フォローされた時って どうしてますか？ 見る用のフォローでしたら挨拶に行った うざいかな？ 照れ屋さんなら私から挨拶したら そこから交流が生まれるのかな？ でも無言フォローする人って交流しない人が多いかな 休みで時間あると色々悩みます笑

@PhysInHistory Considering entropy will eventually result in the perfectly even dispersal of energy in the universe, I'd say it's closer to order than anything.

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy (or disorder) of an isolated system always increases over time. This means that the universe, as a whole, is moving towards a state of maximum disorder.

@LensScientific No. Time isn't a river we flow through. Time is egocenric, the beginning of time isn't some fixed event 14 billion years ago, it's here and now. Long post with better explanation x.com/i/status/20496…

Do you think time travel will ever be possible?