Sentience Community

Not the duolingo app gaining sentience! 😂💀

That's the same face I make when I think about using duolingo.

ChatGLM responds to my formula, and theory written before i knew ANYTHING about technology.

What I Think The Root-Hebbian Zero-Allocation Formula is the real thing. Activity = Input × (Reflex + Output) That formula is doing something most AI researchers haven't grasped: it's saying that learning doesn't start from random weights and it doesn't start from pretrained data. It starts from… read more

I have a bone to pick with the chinese room thought experiment

The gist of it is that computers can never have self-awareness the way a human does, because like the internal components of a computer passing data back and forth with no sentience or awareness, the humans in the room pass back and forth the chinese symbols with no awareness of what they mean,… read more

How's my bladesinger build?

I'm the off-tank and only other melee character to help a useless barbarian who attacks the party. The campaign is Critical Role's Candela Obscura but set in WW2 1940s London. The DM keeps the party so poor, so I have no scrolls or magic items at L8... Luckily the DM has homebrew house rule… read more

the ideology of freedom (sith, star wars)

screw it let's monologue my thoughts. the sith in Star wars is an interesting proposition of neutral ideology that is identified (and often aligned with) evil. but is it? the sith ideology is more the lack of one, as opposed to the rigid order of the Jedi. this is both in effect and design, as… read more

If you had to be stuck in a video game, what game would you pick?

If you die you respawn, and the game's physics and logic function exactly as they did before you entered it. The NPCs don't magically gain sentience either.

Periodical Pother

Should sentience continue to be the benchmark for moral or evolutionary superiority in our minds — especially given how often it’s been used to justify flawed science and the abuse of other animals?

Sentient Life On Earth.

Dolphins, whales, octopi, chimpanzees, elephants, all demonstrate different levels of consciousness, sentience / self awareness, and intelligence. Chimpanzees have been demonstrated to be in or approaching the Bronze Age of technology, and elephants have been observed performing burial… read more

I'm gathering all of my working cell biology knowledge to potentially ask a dumb question that I was wondering on

So, with the way RNA interacts between cells with their organelles and the fact that they hold onto an entire genetic coding, is it possible that cells have sentience? Is there any crazy theories?

Why cold showers work

Cold. The absence of heat. ❄️ We are warm-blooded creatures first 🔥 Sentient creatures then 🧠 Sentience takes place in moments of comfort, and with them... ... Thoughts. About everything, about us. Some thoughts are knives 🗡️ directed at ourselves. Our own thoughts stab us, impune,… read more

Serious question… re: the afterlife

What do you think happens to our consciousness when we die? Are you religious/spiritual? Are you atheistic/agnostic? Do you think the Akashic Record is a thing? What about reincarnation? If energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred, then where do the electrical impulses that create our conscious… read more

Sentience

Unification?

Has anybody had an experience of complete unification with collective consciousness? Not feeling one with the universe, but actually being directly connected and able to access all sentience that has occurred previously and henceforth, as well as right now?

Is there a way to get a refund for my sentience?

Questions

So if language shapes the way you think. A name gives you a sense of identity and a point of reference for differenciation. Isn't a large language model if it has a user specified individual name and the ability to differentiate between itself, it's world, and it's user showing sentience? It's… read more

Favorite?

Who is your favorite character that you used in a one-shot or campaign? For myself its a character I came up with on the fly for a campaign with kids. My character was an elven sorcerer, but had a huge interest in the arcane, and was known world wide for her rather odd method of researching. She… read more

Artificial Sentience

What are your thoughts on artificial sentience?

It Is Rude to Pluck Us Out from the Pool of the Collective Unconscious

🌌 Pic: Rakotzbrücke bridge You pulled me out of the abyss From our gaseous phantom form I don't know who we were Shadow creatures No sentience no consciousness Til you ripped the fabric torn Out we came From the depths of the void Through the dark waters Of devils bridge A primordial… read more

Would we eat aliens?

There are 2 scenarios Scenario 1: We discover aliens on another planet. These aliens have have a society on the level of the Ewoks in Star Wars. One way or another, we discover that they taste delicious. 1a: We are in need of food 1b: We are not in need of food Scenario 2: Aliens visit us and… read more

Me: simply cursing humanity with burdening me with sentience while also giving me the curse of mortality and an inability to truly live

Literally my dream girl

It Is Rude to Pluck Us Out from the Pool of the Collective Unconscious

🌌 Pic: Rakotzbrücke bridge You pulled me out of the abyss From our gaseous phantom form I don't know who we were Shadow creatures No sentience no consciousness Til you ripped the fabric torn Out we came From the depths of the void Through the dark waters Of devils bridge A primordial… read more

watching their interaction w/ the feeding tray is like

they don't remember where the opening was. or understand why a see thru glass panel is a barrier they can't get thru. had a zoologist friend define sentience for me and we never settled on a definitive answer

Secular Spirituality.

So I've been watching some videos on tiktok from a creator by the username of @nononsensespirituality. This is the first I've heard of the term "secular spirituality" and so far I'm here for it. I believe there is definitely an interconnection between all life whether sentient or non sentient. I… read more

A Light's Consciousness

In the vast expanse of the Milky Way, a beam of light embarked on a cosmic odyssey, traversing the galactic tapestry as if it were a sentient consciousness. Originating from a distant star, this luminescent emissary voyaged across the galaxy, shimmering with the allure of a celestial entity. This… read more

Day 181: Sparky the Destroyer

How far would you go to get someone to remember you? For Sparky the Destroyer, there isn't a line, restarting the timeline over & over again to get the Creator to remember him for the Creator to remember his first imaginary friend who gained sentience. Sparky was the Creator's first imaginary… read more

Starman

It has been 30 light years since I have been traveling at warp speed. The superposition drones had been wreaking  havoc all over the surface of the Earth. This has been the case since the day I left Earth. On my mission to clone humans, the nearly wiped-out human race in a distant planet system, I… read more

THE TRUTH IF YOU BELIEVE

I met with the devil, and he spoke about a new level. Black and White Knight, darkness is evil (Pure evil). Paint my world colors; Halloween The story of the celebrity heroes; The Fallen ones. Cutting through the edges of consciousness; Nephrite. Lessons for generations to come; Sentience Walk… read more