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Q: Was the Big Bang really a blast of concentrated self-belief as the first ever sentient entity, a tulpa or “thoughtform”, willed itself into being?

A: Yes, but not the BigBang, it was later—when Eukaryotic life evolved it gained the ability to access quantum computation (Penrose / Hameroff, microtubules, Orch Or etc) and for the first observer the universe worked as described in ‘The Secret’, i.e. anything it willed, it got… but as the population grew the evolution of the universe became a best-fit confabulation of all will. As it still is.

As for the Big Bang: far as I understand, when the ‘inflation’ period of superluminal expansion ended and conventional expansion began, the universe was about a meter across. Annnddd…. one might hazard that ‘Inflation’ is just a mathematical hand-wavy kludge anyway. So whatever started expanding at the beginning of creation, something that curled up would fit in a ball a meter across, was obviously a person warping through hyperspace into a virgin region between universes and that kicked everything off.

(Sci-fi story stuff, don’t take seriously… but you never know, he was probably called Adam or something.)

Been thinking about AI lately. The new(ish) generation of ‘generative’ bots can create human-level text or images. They acquire expertise by reading a huge amount of text, or viewing a stupendous amount of images (billions of pics/pages, internet-scale datasets) and learning to generate new content consistent with the patterns they discover.

Once trained, a simple text prompt can ask the AI to compose text, or draw an image, based on the theme. Here is the AI GPT3 summarising my books:

“In Singularity’s Children, a gripping Techno-Thriller with a Science Fiction soul, the world is on the brink of collapse due to debt, wars, and inequality. Keith, Niato, and Stella are all caught up in this dystopian future, struggling to survive and to find meaning in an increasingly post-human world. With looming threats of war, plague, and collapse, can they make a difference? Find out in this vivid world-building story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.”

Here is a scene from Saloa (Image is a collaboration btwn my photoshop skills and the AI Dali2). It is based on the prompt:
 
“a sleek futuristic Zepplin flying above a white futuristic city partially hidden in a green lush rainforest from above.”

AI is able to use the same technique to ‘spot patterns’ in any sufficiently large data sets, for example, genomes. Here is a first step in that direction:
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-aging-driven-unbalanced-genes-ai.html

Pretty soon, confronted by a sticky kitchen floor, I’m going to be able to prompt GenomeGen3:

“Clone me a little helper. A friendly miniature mammoth with blue fur, a mop for a trunk, and a domestic hygiene fixation.”

This is what a Singularity feels like!

I’m in Turkey attempting to get some serious writing done on the current work in progress.
Ensconced in self-imposed isolation—


If I wander too far an enormous inflatable lobster drags me back to the keyboard. (I have noticed that the watchers can’t seem to tell the difference between productive writing and wasting time in photoshop.)


I am making all books stand alone for a while, they will be all set in the same universe [The Plurality] but do not need to be consumed in any fixed order. The working title for this one is Holocene. Assigning a genre is going to be tough, it’s morphed into a Hard Science Fiction, paleo-punk, ‘who-done-it?’

The pic is probably a spoiler, but you won’t be able to work it out anyway… 😘