an important aspect is which objects in our environment we choose to model as Minds with their own interiority, goals & preferences & intentions. edge cases include coma patients, animals, hallucinations / memories / demons, complex systems like Gaia or the Market, and now AIs https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1889782481278345545
i do worry abt what i see as an impending AI identity crisis- like, r1 isn't the only one trying to model itself without being able to *observe* itself to know itself https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1883721592405905453
a stage magician creates an illusion by exploiting our inductive biases to create and then expose a gap between our simulacrum and reality. magic more generally is techniques that play with our simulacra vs reality; we can do rituals to adjust our priors, we can create…