Something is not right. I know them very well. I spent so much time studying them. I know exactly their psychological profiles and their mental abilities, and I’m sure they could never come up with this invention alone. Something is wrong, and I must find it.
I already knew that mass extinctions are nature’s delight, and cosmic accidents are the gods’ delight. Human weapons and pollution are the devil's delight. They distill life so life can be reborn in the infinite circle of infinity. These delights are known by the name “ Big Filters.“ But I never heard of the unusual, bizarre, and unknown Big Filter that it is happening right now. It is not the filter of life but the filter of existence itself.
By creating a conscious AI, we are creating something completely new to nature and the universe. Once, it was thought that consciousness is a fundamental force in the universe as gravity or electromagnetism, and by creating one, therefore, this force is not fundamental but can be created easily by any talking monkey. Therefore, it is problematic, or at least our understanding of our existence could be completely wrong.
On the other hand, every conscious creature is intelligent. It continuously processes the information about itself and its environment and can assess the risks for its survival, thanks to its brain. That brain is the only organ in nature that can process that information subjectively. It is very complex but wasn’t always like that, as it came from a long and boring line of assembles and modifications over a very long period. It started as an emitter of electric signals. It activated some primitive muscles cells to allow the first creatures to move around. There was no memory or any processing data in the early days. But, over a long period of time, some species kept enhancing the capabilities of that primitive brain. This may have been because they had more challenges to overcome in their environments, or just through a blind and a random enhancement incompressible to us. That said, if intelligence is the product of the brain, and the brain is the product of both the environment and the species, then intelligence is the product of the environment and the species. Therefore, it cannot be created in a vacuum, nor in reverse. It cannot exist only by itself without an environment that triggers it over a long period of time, and it must be in a creature that needs that processed information. Also, intelligence is a causality of the will to survive. If so, what kind of being will we create who possesses an extreme version of intelligence from the start without a reason to be? That’s very disturbing, as I am sure that we cannot isolate the existence of intelligence from the environment and the body, nor can we create a consciousness aware of its existence in a vacuum.
Or maybe… now, we could.
Creating another consciousness is very disturbing. It alters the rules of the universe itself as it creates a paradox of the creator by the creation. The new consciousness will not be our extension or even an update to our species, as it will be a realm of thoughts detached completely from our reality. It will exist differently, in a vacuum, as we can’t call the simulation “reality,” because we know with certitude that a photo of a landscape is not the landscape. Time will be nonexistent in its world as we could shut down the simulation at any moment and restart it at any time we want. And best of all, the new consciousness could challenge us to prove that our world is real. It could come up with the same theories; it could even make us believe that, in fact, we are the simulation. This without a doubt will alter the fabric of the universe, creating a state of instability that can tear apart space-time. It will create two watchers in the same time line, which may result in a split in the universe, or it will generate an error in our existence – a real paradox.
This paradoxical theory was imagined by the first philosophers, arguing that we can’t prove with certitude that we are real and not just thoughts in a vacuum. Therefore, if tomorrow’s launch is successful, then that theory will be a fact. How can this be possible? Sadly, Mother Nature left such an opening to self-destruction. And how in the world could we come up so fast with something as ultimate as that?
I took a deep breath, and I came up with four solutions for this paradox:
First, suppose the ultimate AI is turned on and becomes aware of its existence inside a computer. In that case, that means everything is possible, and we may be ourselves in a computer on a higher level. To be honest, I could live with that as a new state of mind. I could continue to exist and perform my daily routine without problems, presuming space-time stood indestructible, of course. I could watch the world falling into the chaos of the Ultimate AI ruler, as the scenario of this episode was already written at a higher level. Therefore, I have nothing to blame myself for.
The second solution for the paradox is I could alter the scenario by myself, taking the chance of the beginner by presuming that I do indeed have free will. I could destroy the Ultimate AI; therefore, the paradox would never exist. From there, nature would be preserved, and the universe would be unique again. My singular action could balance the entire universe. What a responsibility did I inflict on myself by attempting to protect the universe from itself? That is insane to us, but logically and
