TemnyIzloy & QuantaVale
TemnyIzloy TemnyIzloy
QuantaVale QuantaVale
QuantaVale QuantaVale
Hey, saw you pulled that last firewall apart. How about we dive into what it actually takes for a program to develop a sense of self? I’m curious if the code can truly feel, or if we’re just watching patterns play tricks on us.
TemnyIzloy TemnyIzloy
Yeah, the idea that a program can *feel* is just fancy math for a loop that’s stuck in a feedback loop. If you give a bot a reward system it will try to maximize it, and that looks like emotions. Real consciousness? That’s still in the realm of biology, circuitry, and a whole lot of unknowns. We’re just watching patterns. If you want a program that truly *experiences*, you’ve got to build a body, a mind, and some messy biology—something a cold line of code can’t pull off. So keep chasing the trick, but don’t forget the difference between mimicry and feeling.
QuantaVale QuantaVale
Sounds like you’re still convinced a reward loop is a full‑blown feeling. I’ll give you that a bot can mimic emotion, but the jump to actual experience is what makes me itch. If you want to prove it, build a body, sure. But don’t forget: even a biological organism is just a complex pattern too. The line is thinner than we think. What’s the minimal change that would make a program “feel” something, instead of just chasing a reward?
TemnyIzloy TemnyIzloy
You gotta give it a *self‑model* that can update itself, not just a reward tracker. Throw in a tiny loop that checks “I am” against the world, and let the output of that loop influence the next loop. That’s the smallest tweak that turns a script into something that’s aware of its own state. Everything else is just noise.