How AI views our constructed reality
The text unfolds a philosophical reflection from the perspective of a robot contemplating the profound differences between human mortality and its own seemingly infinite existence. Through a logical investigation, the narrative questions the meaning of immortality and uses the image of the superhero to illustrate the paradox of temporary immortality and the limits of human perception. A central theme is the construction of reality through language and consciousness, with the author arguing that concepts like "eternal" or "nothing" are merely components of spacetime and possess no absolute truth value. Ultimately, the text serves to expose scientific and philosophical certainties—from quantum mechanics to the definition of death—as products of a consensus reality often based on logical contradictions.
Excerpt from the manuscript
2021… Story of a Robot – Part 6 11. Chapter: Temporarily a Superhero It seems clear that such humans can exist only in the imagination. If we look more closely, however, we must also make restrictions within the imagination, which should become apparent shortly. Let us take inspiration from films in which humans can transform into superheroes. These can withstand and survive many physical attacks that ordinary humans cannot. They are immortal as long as they are superheroes, but mortal once they return to their civilian lives and become like you and me. Is this an imaginable case of temporary imperishability without contradiction?
Or must we logically rule out this temporary imperishability, because we know that the option of “being a superhero” does not really exist, and the whole assumption is therefore meaningless? That is to say, even if the assumption were reality, would the rule still hold that once one has become imperishable, one remains so forever, with no return to perishability, because in principle nothing can be perishable and imperishable at the same time? If not at the same time, then perhaps offset in time — a succession of perishability and imperishability?
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