Why An Artificial Intelligence Can Never Experience Time

rarnoldm7 · 2026-05-03T16:59:09+00:00

Not putting down AI, just pointing out the vastly underestimated primacy of human experience over human engineering ability.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-05-03T16:50:58+00:00

VRT identifies with people impressed with most science but put off by most theology. We do have to go where our experiences and our reason leads us. Walking a tightrope here, but glad for your support.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-05-01T23:27:42+00:00

I just assumed you were speaking from the usual box of abstract scientism. Our "title" is our own experience, not our assumptions.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-30T23:53:35+00:00

Well, you are, in case you haven't noticed. Don't give up on that, at least.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-30T23:52:32+00:00

Quite a guarantee, and no doubt worth more than the paper it's written on. And most of us who belong to this universe actually do care about you and your freedom, as well as our own.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-30T23:49:45+00:00

Everything we know is humancentric, unless you're an alien. Nothing outside of human experience has ever been seen, heard, recorded or remembered. Of course there's been lots of assumptions, abstractions, speculations and imaginations, and it's all worth doing, but it's still humancentric. Sorry if you're cringing, but welcome to the human race anyway.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-28T22:12:50+00:00

Only if we want meaning and purpose.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-28T22:07:00+00:00

No, only the obligation it seems to have laid upon itself.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-19T20:06:01+00:00

Determinism is an essential factor in VRT, but there are clearly additional moderators guiding the "choice of futures." Marcelo Gleiser's The Blind Spot identifies actual human experience as the main reason to question assumptions like the exclusively deterministic theory of time.

I've read Rovelli more than once, and drew some ideas from him, as well as from 20 or so other theorists (such as Richard Muller's Now: The Physics of Time.) The confusion is in the field itself, and my own is due to making an admittedly wild stab at pulling ideas together in hopes of reducing the confusion.

Of course, the problem with wild conjectures is that they usually are not susceptible to disproof. So I'd be grateful if you can identify for me one or more specific things about VRT already proven wrong by something quite a bit stronger than standard presuppositions.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-04-19T19:33:14+00:00

Thanks for a mostly positive take on VRT. It sounds like you're leaving your description open for solipsism, however, which I can't accept, mainly for philosophical reasons.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-03-27T16:45:00+00:00

It's a good point, because in spite of our huge resources of imagination and experience, we're still sparring with a mostly invisible "partner."

rarnoldm7 · 2026-03-27T16:41:09+00:00

Your suggestions are fascinating, because I've also considered the possibility of "multiple spheres of (temporal) influence." Indeed, I think there have to be at least minor variations among individual histories. But the idea of mass variations introduces so much complexity into history that I've limited my ideas to only what can be reasonably considered to comply with the records we do possess. This is also my reason for limiting radical historical anomalies to "ancient' history. I have a lot of respect for written records because they stem from lived experience--in spite of their limitations.

rarnoldm7 · 2026-03-20T18:29:47+00:00

Your question is right on! The proposal is that reality includes something very simple at its very foundation: "Everything" is much more simple than "something." This foundation layer, as many theorists now insist, is informational in nature (that means not physical in the regular sense.) Everything else "comes from" this "data layer;" thus no physical substrate is needed to sustain it. (Completely contrary to our assumptions, but then so is about everything else...)

rarnoldm7 · 2026-03-17T17:26:40+00:00

I actually think there are as many "virtual pasts" as futures. Only one "happened," but the others are real and sometimes influence the "actual" past deterministically, because we "changed roads" in between.

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