so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
How many decades have we known that certain phenomena could not be explained in just 3 spatial dimensions and 1 time dimension? Both string theory and m theory depend on many more dimensions. Sub atomic particles and certain waves seem to commonly use these other dimensions. It is known that thought triggers electrical activity in the brain. There are even studies that map where in the brain specific responses occur. So if electricity travels in wave form, why couldn't brain based "psychic" phenomena be explained by using the extra dimensions? All of which leads back to my supposition that xm is derived from transmitted thought. (yes I know, over simplified, with steps left out.)
ReplyDeletesorry im just new here may i know what is xm?
ReplyDeleteExotic Matter. Ingress term for the little white points in the scanner. They seem to be generated by portals. Niantic and associates have found ways to convert xm into the gear we obtain when we hack portals. Our scanners also capture some of it to utilize. It is also what a large part of the back story is based on.
ReplyDeleteMy personal supposition that it derived from transmitted thought is based on several things. The first portals were at Libraries, Post Offices, Fire Stations, and Historical Markers. All of these either store or transmit thoughts in the form of books, letters, or documents set in brass. Fire stations involve thoughts that are quickly and intensely transmitted that lives may be saved. Additional xm could be found at phone stores, along roadways, and in neighborhoods. (Roadways have signs, and drivers are thinking and affecting the drivers around them)
Statues and monuments seek to embody a thought and transmit it to the observer.