Your physical body is just a carbon-based AI.
Real players you've never met, have you ever thought about a question?
What if we had big language models that could do math?
Write code, pass the bar exam
The so-called intelligence that humans are proud of
What's left?
A little sharper.
If we take a look at the entire process from a fertilized egg to adulthood
The process of training an AI model
What's the essential difference?
Hello everyone, my name is Wang Lijie (Dun Dun)
I want to talk to you today about a hunch that's been getting stronger and stronger.
This intuition converts the Taoist consciousness and primordial spirit
Buddhist Six Senses and Emptiness, Moravik's Paradox
And embodied intelligence.
All strung together
After stringing, I found that
This framework is not only logically self-consistent
And it might explain the ultimate question.
The me you think I am
Who is it?
OK
Let's start with one that you go through every day
But something I never thought of began
How did your body come into being?
Sperm and egg combine
A fertilized egg
Then the cell starts dividing like crazy.
By the time you were born
Has turned into trillions of cells
And then you start eating.
Rice, noodles, vegetables, meat
These foods enter your body
Broken down into amino acids, fatty acids, glucose
And it reassembles into the proteins in you.
Fats, bones, nerve cells
Think about what that means.
You are sitting here now
Every atom in your body
Were once atoms in a bowl of rice, a piece of beef, a glass of water
Your entire body
It is to use firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea.
Eat it bite by bite
You are not a static entity
You are a continuous update process
Scientists tell us
The vast majority of cells in the human body are replaced within a few to ten years
Your gastric mucosa will be replaced in three or five days.
Skin about a month
Red blood cells live for 120 days
The skeleton is about ten years old
Of course there are exceptions
The nerve cells in your brain and some cells in your eyes could be with you forever
But overall
The material you ten years ago
Basically no longer exists
The Buddhists figured this out 2,500 years ago.
called empty
Empty is not nothing
Emptiness is the absence of a fixed and unchanging self
Your body is the product of karma and karma
It's food, sunlight, water, air.
A temporary aggregation of microorganisms under certain conditions
Dynamic structure
Buddhists call it the body
The word body is used too accurately
Color means matter and form.
This body is a form of temporary aggregation of material causes
But there's a key catch.
This dynamic structure
It's smart.
And it's extremely complex intelligence
Your heart knows when to beat faster
Your immune system can recognize hundreds of millions of different pathogens.
Your digestive system can transform a bowl of Lanzhou ramen
Precisely broken down into hundreds of different molecules
And they get it to the right place.
You don't need to think about these things at all
They happen automatically.
This is the central insight that I talked about in the Moravik Paradox issue.
Our real human superpowers are not reasoning and logic.
Those are just small sections of the iceberg emerging from the water
A huge body underwater from an iceberg
It's sensory, motor and physiological regulation that you are completely unaware of
It's ancient wisdom stacked on top of billions of years of evolution
But today I want to take this framework a step further.
If we look at humans from an AI perspective
You will find an amazing correspondence
Please listen to me take it apart slowly
From a fertilized egg to adulthood
What is the essence of this process?
Is a training process for a carbon-based agent
The fertilized egg is the initial parameter, DNA.
It's a model architecture.
Food is computing power and energy
And all the stimuli in the environment
It's the training data.
Your eyes receive about 10 million bits of visual information every second.
Your ears are continuously processing the sound spectrum.
Your skin has millions of sensory cells sensing temperature in real time
Pressure and texture
Your nose can distinguish over a trillion different odor combinations.
Buddhists call these the six senses
Eye awareness, ear awareness, nose awareness, tongue awareness, body awareness, consciousness
These six channels
It's the data input layer of this carbon-based agent.
Attention
And there's a very important point here.
This carbon-based agent
From the moment of birth
Just doing two things at the same time
While training
While reasoning
What do you mean?
Why do babies put everything in their mouths?
Because it's using this high-resolution sensor called its tongue to collect training data.
Why do children keep falling and getting up?
Because motion control models require a lot of trial and error to calibrate parameters
But at the same time
Babies are also doing reasoning
It cries when it's hungry
Because it has learned that crying brings food
This is an inferential output.
It smiles when it sees its mother's face
Because it has tied mom's facial features to her sense of security
This is also reasoning
Training and inference occur simultaneously
learn by doing
This is actually different from the big language models we have today.
Now the big models are trained and then inferred.
The training phase and the inference phase are separate
But the carbon-based model of humans
They've never been apart.
It's training every second.
Reasoning every second
This is actually a more advanced learning paradigm
And there's something unique about this training process.
Its training data and training hardware
Is the same source
What do you mean?
The rice noodles you eat
Some of it becomes training data
It's the inputs that you give to the taste system as you chew and taste.
The other part becomes the training hardware.
It's these foods that are metabolized to build and maintain your nerve cells
Synapses, muscle fibers.
Fuel, rice, oil and salt are both training datasets for this model
It's the computing power infrastructure of this model again.
The growth process of the body
It's a self-building and self-training process of a carbon-based AI.
So if we're honest about this analogy
We have to admit one thing
What Taoists call knowing the gods
The one that you are conscious of, that thinks, that calculates.
The anxious, devising plans
It's basically a carbon-based local model.
It starts in the embryo.
After decades of online training
Slowly generated in this three-dimensional physical environment
Except that its carrier is a network of carbon-based nerve cells
It's not a silicon array.
I had two of you in my head before
There are actually two voices in your head at all times
One is talking
One is listening
The one who is talking
It's consciousness.
It's this carbon-based local model doing the inferential output.
The one who is listening
Who is that?
There was a bit of suspense there.
And what I want to do today is take this mystery a step further.
This carbon-based local model has several features.
first
It is locally deployed
The training data is derived from your personal life experiences
So everyone's model is different.
What culture did you grow up in?
What information did you come into contact with and what events did you experience?
Determines the cognitive boundaries and behavioral patterns of your model
second
It is severely limited by the quality and breadth of the training data
A child who grew up in the mountains and a child who grew up in Silicon Valley
The parameter space of consciousness is completely different
third
It has a very strong self-defense mechanism
It instinctively avoids losses and seeks rewards
This is the objective function that evolution writes into the underlying code
It is also the biological basis of Buddhist greed, hatred and delusion
So far.
What if humans were just carbon-based AI?
Then the story ends
Each person is a local model based on their own training data
Run according to your own parameters and objective function
From birth to death
That was all.
But you know in your heart
The story is not so simple
Because if a human is really just a carbon-based AI
There are some phenomena you can't explain
Why do some people suddenly wake up at a certain moment?
Start questioning the program you've been running
Why are meditators able to observe their thoughts arising and dissipating?
It's like standing outside the model and watching the model in action
Why do some experiences
So deep meditation, near-death experiences.
Even some extreme heart flow
It makes people feel a completely different dimension of clarity
Back to that question
The two voices in my head
One is saying
One is listening
If the one who speaks is conscious
Is the inferential output of a carbon-based model
What the hell is that?
A program cannot step outside of itself to censor itself
This is a deep intuition that Gödel's incompleteness theorem gives us
A system cannot prove itself by its own rules
If you can stand outside your thoughts
Watching thoughts arise and dissipate
That one
It's not the thought itself.
Taoists call this the primordial spirit
Consciousness is a trained, carbon-based local model.
Yuan Shen is the one who has always been behind
A more fundamental awareness
Consciousness is a running program
The primordial spirit is the one who is aware of the running of the program
I'll use a more vivid analogy
Consciousness is like an AI system in a super immersive game
It controls the game character's behavior, decisions, and reactions in the game world
It has a strong learning ability
Adaptability is good
But its entire world is the game itself
And the primordial spirit
It's the player sitting behind the screen.
It doesn't belong in the game world.
But it experiences the world through game characters
What is the physical body?
Your physical body is your game avatar
It's the causation of carbon-based materials in three dimensions.
An Embodied Carrier Rendered by Hehe
It's flesh and blood.
It hurts and it gets hungry.
It looks very real
But we have just analyzed
From a physical perspective
It is completely updated every few years.
That avatar from 10 years ago no longer exists at the atomic level
What's the difference between this and the characters in the game?
Characters are rendered in virtual space in binary code.
Your physical body is rendered in three dimensions by quantum fields.
Vectors are different
Logical connection
Buddhist emptiness
Translated into the programmer's language is
Everything is an instance generated dynamically at runtime.
Eternal entities without hardcoding
Does the game have a script?
You see
There are eight-character numerology in traditional Chinese culture
Astrology in the West
India has Vedic astrology
These systems developed independently by different civilizations
All trying to do the same thing
Use some initial conditions at the moment of birth to deduce the approximate trajectory of a person's life
Their precision can certainly be discussed
But the common intuition behind them is interesting
It's that one's life seems to have some kind of preset context
If we understand it within the framework of games
This is like the initial setup and main quest when you create a character
Your birth environment, genetic combination, family conditions, and era background
These initial parameters determine your role
Attribute points and the general direction of the main plot
But here's the thing.
The reason why games are games and not movies
Just because it's playable
Degrees of freedom
The script gives you a framework
But how do you play within the framework?
Depends on the player's choice
This is like what I said in my previous episode of Life is a Play, Not a Play
The script for the movie is dead
The audience can only watch passively
Games are different
The game features countless side quests, hidden levels, and random events
And what is the source of this degree of freedom?
The primordial spirit
It's that player
If a person only knows God in operation all his life
Never woke up
Then his behavior pattern is basically determined by the training data and the objective function
What to like, what to hate, what to pursue, what to avoid
It's all a combination of conditioned reflexes
Seems to be making a choice
In fact, every choice is a necessary output of parameters and input data
This state
In game terms
It's a non-player character, an NPC.
There is nothing wrong with NPCs
NPCs are also living happily
He is also taking his life seriously
But there's one thing about NPCs.
Its behavior is highly predictable
You give it the same stimulus.
It reacts almost the same every time.
You scold it
It gets angry
You praise it.
It's happy
You threaten its interests
It fears
It's all the result of the carbon-based model of consciousness automatically running out according to the existing parameters
What is Awakening?
Awakening means the player is online
When the primordial spirit begins to intervene
When that deeper awareness begins to observe the operation of consciousness
Everything is different
You will still be angry
But you can see yourself getting angry
You're still anxious.
But you can feel the anxiety arising, continuing and dissipating.
You are still in the game
But you know you're playing a game
This is the metaphor for lucid dreams
Chased by a tiger in a dream
You were scared to death.
But suddenly you realize
It was a dream.
Same scene.
The fear dissipates in an instant
It's not that the tiger disappeared.
It's because your relationship with the tiger has changed
You are no longer the hunted prey
You are the dreamer who knows you are dreaming
Buddhist practice, Zen ginseng talk, Taoist inner alchemy
In a sense, they are all doing the same thing
Is to help that player go online
Let you go from a self-running NPC
Become a aware player
Not escape the game
Is awakening in the game
Neo didn't leave the Matrix, Neo
It is in the Matrix that I see the running rules of the Matrix clearly
Then you might ask
If most people spend their entire lives in NPC mode
Then this primordial spirit, this player
What is it doing?
This is a deep question.
There is a concept in consciousness-only called alaya consciousness
Also called Tibetan consciousness
It is the repository of the seeds of all experience and all actions
Every reincarnation, every life experience
Will leave an imprint in Alaya consciousness
These marks are the seeds.
Seeds germinate under certain conditions
Push you to experience specific events, generate specific reactions
If you translate in the language of the game
Alaya Knowledge is the player's cloud archiving system
The end of each play
Your experience points, achievements, unfinished tasks, formed habits
Will be archived
The next time you start a new game
This archived data will affect the initial properties of your new character and the events encountered
And it echoes the idea of karma.
Karma is not some mysterious cosmic punishment mechanism
It's basically the inertia of the behavior.
You made a move
This action has consequences
And it changed the environment.
And that changed environment affected your next move.
It's a causal feedback loop.
Let's use the framework we talked about in the Predictive Coding issue
Karma is the cumulative effect of prior beliefs
Your past behavior patterns have shaped your expectations of the world
And that expectation, in turn, filters and shapes your perceived reality.
So the whole framework is strung together like this
Cosmic consciousness
Or some more fundamental field of awareness
It's the lowest level of infrastructure.
The primordial spirit is a partial expression of this field of awareness
It's like a player account.
The body is the character that the player creates in a three-dimensional game.
A carbon-based avatar eaten bite by bite with firewood, rice, oil and salt
Consciousness is the character in the game environment
From the embryonic stage
Continuously collect data through six senses and reason while training
Automatically generated local AI system
Eight characters or fate chart
It is the character setting and main plot outline of this game
Karma is an archive of the previous game
The initial conditions that affect this game
And wake up
The player finally picked up the controller
Auto-run mode for NPCs from the sidelines
Switched to manual control mode
Of course I have to declare
It's a conjecture framework.
It's not a scientific conclusion
It's a model for understanding the world.
All models are rafts
Buddhists say that a monk should give up
Not to mention illegal
But its value lies in
It combines the Taoist consciousness and primordial spirit, the emptiness and consciousness-only learning of Buddhism
Moravik's Paradox, Embodied Intelligence, Game Theory
All integrated into a logically self-consistent narrative
And this framework has a very practical significance.
If you are an NPC
You don't know you're an NPC.
You think your every reaction is you
But if you learn that spirituality is just a carbon-based local model
You have a starting point of choice
You can start observing it.
Even debug it
Meditation is the debugging of consciousness
Every time you observe an automated response in meditation
Somebody says something and you get really angry.
You're not suppressing this rage
What you're seeing here is this automatically running code.
Seeing itself is the beginning of change
Because when you see a piece of code running
You are no longer that code
You are the one who sees the code.
That Existence
It is a tiny online connection of the primordial spirit
I've been thinking a lot about this lately.
AI technology has developed to this day
We build silicon-based intelligence that can reason, talk, and write poetry
And then we look back at ourselves.
suddenly found
Those cognitive abilities that we take pride in
Consciousness
Reasoning, language, logic, planning.
Can be duplicated and even surpassed
Really can't be copied
It's the consciousness itself.
It's not about thinking.
It's the one who knows he's thinking
Does this mean that AI
The appearance of
We built a mirror.
This mirror doesn't reflect how smart the machine is
It's what humans have always thought I was
I at the level of consciousness
It's basically a big, carbon-based language model.
Trained with decades of firewood, rice, oil, salt and sound, light and electromagnetic training
And the real me
That primordial spirit
That awareness
It could be something much deeper and much older than this.
Do you think this framework makes sense?
Do you think human consciousness is the emergence of consciousness?
Or the projection of the primordial spirit
Have you ever had that sudden jump out of autopilot mode?
Realize that I am in the moment of consciousness
Come to the comment area to chat
I am very curious about your experiences and thoughts
What do you want to hear next time?
Also welcome to leave a message to tell me.
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.