Free will re-redux

Continuation from above ->


Interesting sync - have you read Stephen King. All his books are part of a shared universe, and in that universe Gan is the word for "God". Gan arises from "Prim", the abyss of primordial chaos, and manifests as the Dark Tower which is the Nexus of Worlds.

Wow that's cool! I have not read his books but I probably should.

So you think reality is at least partially generated by two neural networks competing in a game? I think it's that part that I get confused about. Who made the two NNs, are they gods or literally programs?

Just like the arms race between two superpowers leads to more complex tech and a more complex game, the same is true (I think) with the structure of reality.

I think there's more than two "neural networks" competing, but their power tends to aggregate like so many other things in nature along a pareto distribution and so we have Jesus and the Devil so to speak...

Like I said in the post before this one, the process of creation is this: Will dives into the Chaos and excretes order which then determines something which frustrates another Will prompting it to dive into the Chaos to achieve its goal and so on...

Exactly how the whole thing gets going from square one? I don't know. Maybe there's no beginning and no end... wherever you are, you're always in the middle.

Aside from the "adversarial" aspect of GANs, I think they are also an important analogical tool in our philosophical toolkit because they help us imagine how Plato's realm of forms could work... You can input a symbol or a word and get back a complex indeterministic unique instantiation of that symbol or word.

I think this is crucial for beginning to understand things like synchronicities and other mystical phenomena where there is not a physical local mechanistic causal link, but there is a semantic link. If reality is created by something like a GAN then the manifestation physically of something complex can be accomplished simply with a word... and this is essentially Magic... direct imposition of Will without any physical mechanism... the materialists say this is impossible because there must be a causal chain, but what was the causal chain that led to my computer's GAN generating an image of a cat when I ask for a "CAT"? It is not seen physically, but running in the background is a network that can generate anything you wish if you ask for it... albeit with some randomness in the outcome which will inevitably lead to frustration. ;-)

So do we repeat versions of our lives, some decisions remaining the same and others being open to Will again?

I don't know... maybe? Or maybe improvements we make in our Soul from this life help us better achieve our soul goals in a similar though not exactly the same environment?

Upscaled?

Yes, like taking a low-res compressed image and using a neural network to generate new information that is probably close to what the original would have contained... close enough to serve the same purpose as the original.