Monday, 14 March 2022

Ouroboros

 A machine which talks about itself,
a statement that predicates itself,
a brain asking origin of itself,
a problem checking its consistency,
a snake evading to eat its own tail -
what commonality all these problems have?

It is the notion of 'itself',
that of its own self,
on whether its essence is 
meaningful or meaningless.

Questions with such binary answers,
can be encoded in a Turing machine.
All answers, always are right or not.
Or their hierarchies are right or not.

Does it ever stop?
Is there a limit after which
determinism prevails?
The answer, when, settles,
and no hierarchy exists?

These rare events seem difficult to find,
but maybe these exist, for example when,
the problem inverts itself as it 
proceeds to predicate itself -
why would self-referencing 
be a sudden, digital process?
A program changing itself,
inverting itself, to not eat its tail
is indeed an awareness that it has.
A consciousness of not falling 
into trap of indeterminacy, puzzles,
or that of "philosophical black hole".
Consciousness (anthropomorphically) emerges off
from such programs and paradoxes,
from the Navier-Stokes problem,
quantum-spectral-gap problem,
quantum gravity, and what not?






Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Something is exploding

What's developing?

Something is exploding?
An affair is happening..

Amidst frenzied war,
fear of deaths, lives,
and of mortality, AGI,
explosions of neural nets,
chimeric beings all around,
debates on consciousness,
blurred gaps of science and heresy,
self-promoting burdened beings,
to snatch what's on the plate,
physical space reduced to 0s, 1s,
a new 'theory of everything' every month,
philosophy of biology more needed than before,
geo-political crimes, identities at risk..

why would someone write?
Is a printer, keyboard, screen more than enough?
Why would someone spend hours in desire
to advance a product of hundreds of years
of humanity's rational spirit?
Why would a problem, as niche as Clay problem,
seem exciting and not anything else?
Welcome to the 21st century.

The century that starts now with the end very far
and any singularity someone might predict
might occur, or maybe not at all
there are no rules here
no predictions
no laws
0s,1s.