metaphor me a ratio just like you
metaphor me a ratio just like you
a halting problem I've been thinking about for three decades
Analogy and metaphor are the same thing, but are not the same object. Like.
Metaphors are about immanence and emergence; compositions, if not fractal conspiracies of figure/ground. The thing.
Analogies are about the ratios of distinction; differences meted out in a digital notice too fine to have any resolution.
These are why each can be defined in terms of the other, and each can claim to precede the other. It is likely neither do in the/their amalgam of our minds.
Analogy because of the sin of distinction, a cut above the rest, will attempt an assault on transcendence, setting forth to summit before it bows down to it, like, but these idols are false god. And this is why all gods are false regardless of whether they do/don’t exist.
Objects are a short cut to reality, promising much and delivering nothing. Analog bears the blame in babbling itself into a tower of power. One is the mother of ten thousand.
Metaphors, because of the guilt of of emergence will carry off a boastful claim to take credit for everything (See Greek usage of the word metaphor in their ancient legal use to realise the transfer of real property = alienate).
Thus we see
in the power of analogy in likeness an idolatry which reason tries to calm or train in the name of said ratio. Idols banning idolatry.
in the power of metaphor to be an identity where/but wisdom tries to nurture or raise up out of self-centredness. God is our witness.
Here we can, if we could, liken them both to each other and ration out a wisdom life’s experience tallys.
All this is about the halting problem. I suspect it is worse than we think.
Can we get there from here? Can we get there before the end of the universe? Can we and all other life forms ever get there? Can we get there even if we control all energy in the universe?
How did we get here? Now, like, we are here, so we got here already… —what’s the problem again? We wan to fake it, like, you know.
General intelligence or consciousness
analog or metaphor
Maybe we can’t get there from here because we are not here yet either.
It could be something else entirely that neither analogy nor metaphor get us closer to.
Hofstadter, D. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
There is a group working on getting from here (Turing machines & ‘AI’ as we know it) to general intelligence (which is consciousness in their view —I suspect).
They posit that advanced AI will use an mix of Turing machines and analog neuro-doodads (personally I am not sure digital and analog are distinct. I used to think they were, but now I wrote that stuff above and now kinda metaphorically think they are the same. Analogy doodads may not escape the halting problem).
But here we are. Like.
Anyways. These peeps talk of an oracle machine to carry across like one to the other (Turing machine to consciousness thang).
Cicurel, Ronald, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis. The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot by Simulated by a Turing Machine. Natal: Kios Press, 2015.
Or take Martin Ciupa’s facebook post for example: I’d say the future hyper-computer platform will likely be a hybrid of digital algorithmic Von Neumann architectures, together with Hi-tech Neuromorphic analog components (perhaps including Organic components, ie., Organoid Intelligence). Quantum Computing may also have a role.
I feel that general intelligence is a goose chase, and it chases a goose which itself foolishly seeks greener pastures. This is because we cannot get there from here, but we are already here/there.
Even if we succeed in catching the goose, will it seek greener pastures and lead us on?
At least we think/feel/live/world consciously here already like.
Will our failure to get there (halting problem) be our fault, or our fate, or our delusion?
I guess all this suspension of judgement also could be illusory.
My intuition tells me my intuition is wrong.
Words fail me and carry me home to hope.