“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
– Carl Sagan
“Hydrogen is an odorless, colorless gas which, given enough time, starts to wonder where it came from.”
— Not Einstein
A rock may be intelligence. It just thinks at a far shower rate than humans.
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels there are trolls made from rock with silicon-based brains. They are usually also dumb as rocks – until the temperature gets cold enough, then they suddenly become hyper-intelligent.
Ignoring creative liberties, it is assumed silicone based life forms would need high temps to thrive. Is quite possible that they would immediately die if exposed to human temps. Possibly these high temps would result in very fast computational skills.
Is interesting though. The speed at which you think is not entirely related to intelligence. If you created a computer the size of the solar system, it would be far far far more intelligent than an individual human. But because information would take hours to traverse across different regions of that brain, conversations and answers to questions might be incredible slow to come. We actually already take this into consideration when designing computers. The physical length memory is from the CPU is now critical.
And we’re using atoms in the universe to do it.
When you study how the brain works you are a brain looking at a brain
We should have a community called /c/originalshowerthoughts
We are proof we do not live in a cold uncaring universe
We are the closes system, we are the universe witnessing and caring about itself
We are an insignificant part of all there is, but that still makes us entirely a part of all there is.
Buddy I’ve got some bad news about space…it’s cold and it doesn’t give a shit.
You’re in space right now. Everything is in space.
Whoa dude!
PS This is a great shower thought!!!
Yeah, I know. Doesn’t help much.
It’s all a part of God’s plan /s
We Humans have been on a journey of self examination since we first understood we exist
It’s like we are mirrors of the universe… woah!
More specifically, we are made of things which behave continuous until interacted with when they behave discrete (but revert if the persistent info about the interaction is erased).
While simultaneously building virtual worlds we procedurally generate using continuous functions which convert to discrete units in order to track stateful interactions with free agents, ideally with memory optimizations like erasing the state tracking and conversion if the info around an interaction is lost.
Every journey of self awareness has to start somewhere
