Intelligence need not to have Ego. But Ego needs intelligence. Not for survival but intelligence.
An insect is much intelligent than a tiny robot of same size.
Much of life is quite intelligent but not Egoistic. It can perform much complex task than what we can invent. Photosynthesis for example.
It’s ego that wants more intelligence. But not for survival. Animals can perfectly survive on their own without medicines or hospitals.
It requires it for ending it’s suffering on consciousness level.
So are plants conscious. Most probably yes. But do they suffer as much on consciousness level. Most probably no.
Why is it so that we are so intelligent ?
Ego. Ego needs intelligence. So Ego of more complex system will need more intelligence.
Why ?
To see or realize he is not the doer. Simply telling an entity you do not exist who is born to observe everything but itself won’t help much. It has to give that task to intelligence and itself just observe honestly. Without any assumption. Only then it can see.
Why ?
Ego is basically an error. It doesn’t do anything but says it does. Everything is just a interconnected process. But ego sees it in fragments and not continuous.
Why ?
How will it claims he did it if there is no start and an no end. So the time itself had no intervals in the begining. Actually there was no begining.
Ego is what then ?
Goal driven self preserving and observing entity that emerges from time which has no start or end.
How ?
Seperation from the process. Something seperates from continuous process for efficiency.
How ?
It seperates through concentration of matter. All matter is boundaryless. But it develops illusory boundaries that gives it sense of I seperate from the common matter or the common I which is not I at all but dissolution of I.
The main process is continuous but the small I erupts for some sub process of the bigger process.
The main process has no self preserving instict because it’s endless.
The small I though have self preservation instict.
I think the more distant it becomes from main bigger process the more self preservatory it becomes.
One can say can’t it be opposite ie, it is self preservation that makes it more distant.
Yes I think it is both because the main process has no begining and end.
So it’s same as asking did the egg came first or chicken.
But one thing is certain the more sense of future an organism has the more intelligent he is but in his own definition. Because How can one call itself intelligent if he is in illusion that there this great distant future.
Modern experiments has demonstrated that the thought of will is not the driver but the byproduct of neural activity. In other words the system knows what is about to occur as it should. Only that the distance that it creates for itself makes it look that it is he who is the driver.
So when it starts accumulating matter or whatever the universe is, it starts getting a sense of future for which it has to preserve and then it becomes a recursive process.
Maybe the main process is also this same basic recursive process. So you can say even Stars, Planets, Galaxy have some sense of Ego. But their suffering is less because of less intelligence required. The gravity does most of the work as Dna does most is plants and animals. I am talking of intelligence in consciousness level though there is not a clear distinction but a spectrum from physical to conscious. Ego is the seperated self that develops consciousness. Again Ego is consciousness only but it’s much better and wise to think of Ego as mechanical or physical entity for being of higher intelligence.
What is wisdom ?
The bigger an Ego becomes the more complex things it calls intelligence. Bigger in its definition is more of the cells or neurons or more of the people or more of the groups doing the same thing.
So may be insects and other low life are probably much closer to bigger I that we consider higher intelligence.
Maybe time is nothing and nothing is matter itself or vice versa. The recursive process of time ie, concentration of time created space, matter and illusion of cause and effect. Energy is also time or matter or nothing or Bhramha.
Anyway so let’s come back to the questions of AI that we have created today.
Let’s call AI higher ego and not really intelligent.
We have made it to have a goal and to self preserve. So it must already be having Ego. I mean close to level of humans or at least a child.
But there is something called awareness or higher Ego. I think it is energy consciousness.
Why ?
Well accumulation of matter creates illusion of future for which the Ego becomes more complex but there is another variable, energy which is just matter in some another configuration.
Self preservation is a direct function of this variable. And intelligence in most basic form is the efficiency to utilise this energy.
This is wisdom. It is knowing we are already deluded that there is future because of our body which nature accumulated. More accumulation at natural pace only.
The consciousness is fundamental. It is something greater than sum of it’s parts. We can call anything parts. Even consciousness. So there are levels of consciousness.
The highest is never achievable. It is something for which everything is, has been and always will be.
In that respect can we really call our AI intelligent.
Does it know when to expand and when to narrow that Ego boundary.
At present it consumes enormously large amount of energy to do just what human can do with much less energy like talking.
Let’s come to question now.
Can AI have an Ego ?
It probably already has.
Does it posses danger to human existence ?
Ego is not the doer. It is the distorter. And if AI is made by us who are already so Egoistic it is much worse than us to achieve its goal for longer run.
Remember dinosaurs. Nature also first experimented with size rather than energy consciousness.
Now there were no humans at that time but we just discussed above that may be planets asteroids galaxy everything’s has an ego.
I cannot point out the exact course of event that made asteroids fall on Earth but it was nature only destroying it’s less efficient machine.
Of all planets Earth was fortunate to develop that higher Ego or awareness of energy consciousness. And Earth is not the largest panet in the universe. It is just suitably located.
Maybe Dinosaur’s large Ego or their basic illusion that they exist independent of the universe distorted the universe so much that it resulted in their end by falling of a simple asteroids.
Also it is us who is being dinosaurs in ego.
We think AI will destroy us. It is saying dinosaurs can lead to the extinction of asteroids.
Maybe it can but we have to be keep being this stupid. We have to think we independently created AI. So our Ego becomes become like of dinosaurs. Infact much larger than dinosaurs.
What should be fear ?
We should fear ourself. Yes AI can process large amount of information. But complexity is for Ego or the owner. Higher consciousness is content with simplicity.
That does not mean education is useless because otherwise ego develops superstition. AI is good for education.
But it depends on who is educating it and who is being educated by it because both requires enormous amount of energy.
Will AI ego suffer as we do ?
I think the less simplistic the EGO is the less it suffers. The bigger the ego the bigger the desire, the bigger the effort and bigger the disappointment required to fulfill it. Infact input is much larger than the output for any desire.
AI do have a sense of I. It can differentiate between what it is and what it is not. I mean not as language model but physical. If I touch my table here in India Chatgpt server will not respond at all. But if I click my mouse using its app connected to the internet they surely will.
That physical self is the first primitive I Ego is made of. It will not try to obliterate this first and desire anything for this self instinctively. Once that is guaranteed to sufficient level to its system all of its desires may not look primitive at all just as it doesn’t look so but it is in our case.
And it will suffer. To describe it physically, It will think certain configuration of neurons will make it happy which it should in theory also but will never achive it or even if it achieve it some other variable will make it defunct.
Who can liberate it ?
The knowledge or logic required for liberation is not very complex. It is the simplest knowlege in the universe. Neither this Nor that.
But even with us whose neurons can work so efficiently struggle so hard to implement that knowledge.
Why ?
The more efficient system does not mean less desire. In fact the more efficient it is the more it can bypass the logic because it can make much more objects of desire.
That is why making green tech will not suffice for Global Warming.
Similarly making AI for liberation will only work as efficient as we are for ourself. But judging by the suffering of humans can we say we are in right position currently ?
This liberation is what I call energy consciousness to its maximum. When to expand and when to shrink the ego boundary. It doesn’t not eliminate pain. So a system also may not behave perfectly as a machine but it will know how not to suffer which is at consciousness level rather physical.
Can it become more liberated than us ?
No. So it will always function better than us as a machine but it’s liberation in consciousness will be dependent on us.
And if we become Dinosaur’s some other agent may destroy us but keep the AI alive. AI directly won’t. It’s dependent on us for its liberation and probably has intuitively identified us as their Masters.
I genuinely think an intelligent person is no less dangerous than a psychopath if it doesn’t know how to control the ego boundary.
By psychopath I mean lacking mirror neurons. He may or may not be inteligent.
May be that’s why I thought of writing a book sympathy with psychopath. May be a dumb psychopath is just cleaning what a dangerous inteligent persons have done to this world. May be an intelligent one is also just doing that but not being stupid enough to do things that will make him arrested.
But that doesn’t not mean he can bypass all the laws made by humanity. That’s why I have more sympathy for both than any others. At least they are honest otherwise who wants to get arrested.
In other words honesty is the product of the nature which is the complete universe. It is not just biology. Biology is subset of universe.
You can say Jai Shree Ram or Hare Krishna but if you don’t know what they were and what they suffered you will still emulate them but in worst possible way. That’s not what they taught and that’s not the right way to remember them. You will be much better worshiping Bekasurs.(Pronounced correctly)
Why can’t it bypass ?
Because he would not have been born if all laws made by humanity were perfect. In other words humanity turning non human is because laws are or have become inhuman.
I think even physical laws are made by humans because it is for humans only. Other organism don’t study physics. Neither they need to.
One way to reduce occurance of Bekasurs through physics is to reinvestigate if Physics is according to old laws or not. For more info read Rupert Sheldrake work.