What is the self in the technology analogy?
The AI is trained and you know the input but there could be any infinite number of variables in the processing to make any given output.
That black-box processing will be the ‘me’.
Even with the same input same output, it could be anything.
Someone doing charity could be doing it through goodwill or through guilt and you would never know because that’s all in the blackbox.
The extrapolation I did using the in/out data will be best-guess based on the information available to me from various walks of life.
But what is the AI? What is the self? The deep learning algorithm that was set loose on seemingly random data and told ‘learn’, and ‘reproduce’?
I suppose this is the 道 again. You try to refine your process so much that your AI is refined, clean, straight from A to B with no faffing about and no extraneous processing.
And then you achieve a kind of ease or a grace, because instead of 20 steps you only take 2.
You reflect reality perfectly, like the buddha said. Every moment is flow state.
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