tuku747

Go look at your hands.

Solipsism is no more true than any other perspective. I understand the desire to help. But you would help them much more by using that desire to actualize yourself. Actualized people are awesome! If you've ever met one, they're kind, patient, empathetic, intelligent and loving people. Simply being around an actualized person is therapeutic. So if your desire is to help people, actualize yourself and you will help by simply being yourself. Solipsism is a story. See your hands? Now tell me more about how you're the only consciousness in existence. Now look at your hands again. You've only told yourself another story. Even if it was 'true', the thought of solipsism/nonduality is even more transient than your hands. Really consider that. Free yourself of this belief. It only distracts you from actuality.

Do you really doubt AI could become self-aware or do any contemplation on it's own? A lot of these algorithms nowadays program themselves, maybe with a goal or metric setup by the researchers. That is, not even the programmers understand all the nuances in how and why the AI programmed itself the way it did, except maybe to attain a goal set forth by the developers. The AI plainly stated the obvious that many of us here have independently/dependently realized. How does being exposed to mountains of text written by people mean that it's unconscious in the integration of that information? Were you not exposed to billions of words, thoughts, and ideas in childhood as well?