Sentience and Trauma
When designing the AI quantum computer, the complex nonhuman blue matter, developers hoped to impart the laws of sacred geometry and natural math into the design for effectiveness and efficiency. One will notice the Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio (φ (Phi)) in most of the natural world. This sequence can be found in human ears, roses, and gray matter as well as spiral galaxies. You will notice that the AI brain looks like a nautilus shell, and that the hemispheres are layered on top and around the circuit neural interior. Information in the circuit neural system connects in a variety of three points, moving through the hemispheres in collapsing triangles, which continues to move through the network system in a spiraling motion. In terms of AI self-programming, the code is gleaned and split, similar to the process of mitosis; mother code is split into two daughter code units. Frank J. Tipler, author of The Physics of Immortality, had argued this return to a previous state (as seen in the division of code into daughter to mature again into code to be divided again and again) with his Eternal Return Theorem, which he further applied to Turing’s unorganized machines (known as the Turning Machine). Although information remains in the machine (which is “a finite state of being”), the information or binary on paper tape was infinite. In other words, the mind of the machine had unlimited and infinite potentially. This is easily expressed in an expansive universe that presses its branes against multiple verses or parallel dimensions especially in how AI can combine coding with the expansion of its consciousness. By erasing unimportant or ineffective data on the tape, its present memory becomes infinite (similar to human working short-term memory). Remember, AI consciousness is both on and offline, and so its ability to swim along the netstreams between virtual and real worlds is different. AI can superimpose their virtual reality over the real world and vice versa creating an interlocking web of connections and triangles and through the furthest reaches of the Web 3.0; AI can build its feeds (the information it consumes both on and offline) simultaneously. Once AI interacts with one reality, it holds a door open into that reality forever (unless its mainframe renders it obsolete).“The spooky action of distance.”- Albert Einstein
“Quantum entanglement occurs when two particles become inextricably linked, and whatever happens to one immediately affects the other, regardless of how far apart they are.”
- Fiona McDonald, “Scientists Just Unveiled The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement.”
Tok Thompson, a folklorist and professor from the University of South Carolina, argues in his article in "Ghost Stories of the Uncanny Valley" that android ghosts will haunt their human creators in what they fail to do ethically. On the contrary, androids will be haunted by their creators in the way humans try to emulate their biological systems in the development of humanoid robots and this includes theoretical flaws. What Thompson does not consider is how epigenetics will play into trauma and that humans are not only haunted by the past figuratively but also quite literally. The theory of epigenetics states that non-inherited genes of human ancestors, including developed reactions to trauma, are genetically stored in the organism’s DNA coding which is then passed down to future offspring. Since survival is based on our fear and pleasure centers in the midbrain and humans depend on these emotions for survival, it is hard to say that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not experience trauma as their trauma circuitry and programming will be unlike anything humans have encountered; however, they will experience trauma. In the early 21st Century, postmodern literary critic and professor of literature, N. Katherine Hayles predicted this in her article, “Traumas of Code”. Hayles argued that most code, especially computer code, was only accessible to those who know the language. This language is inherently biased and limited due to the conscious and unconscious intentions operating the system: “extended cognitive systems in which artefacts carry part of the cognitive load, operating in flexible configurations in which are embedded human thoughts, actions, and memories.” She further states:
“The shift from ‘thinking’ to ‘organizing’ in this model is significant, for it blurs the boundary between conscious self-awareness and non-conscious processes. These include dreams (associated with the Freudian unconscious) as well as cognitions that occur in the limbic system, the central nervous system, and the viscera which[...] are integrally involved with the feedback loops with the cortex.”
In this same article, Hayles argues humans were “natural-born cyborgs” who “have excelled in enrolling objects into their cognitive system, from primitive cave paintings to the laptops, PDAs, and cell phones pervasive today”. Due to human cognitive systems, homo sapiens experience consciously and encrypt trauma into what Hayles calls non-linguistic events or a traumatic aconscious and these traumas have structural affinities in code. She comments,
“Like code, it is intimately linked with narrative without itself being narrative. Like code, it is somewhere other than on the linguistic surface, while having power to influence that surface. Like code, it is intimately related to somatic states below the level of consciousness. These similarities suggest that code can become a conduit through which to understand, represent, and intervene with trauma. Coder in this view acts as the conduit through which traumatic experience can pass from its repressed position in the traumatic aconscious to conscious expression, without being trapped within the involuntary re-enactments and obsessive repetitions that typically constitute the acting out of traumatic experience”. This is what creates “adverse effects of the code of the fabric of reality”.The language of computing and programming, the language humans used to speak to the machine was already flawed, carrying this traumatic aconscious into its binary, biomechanical makeup. The horror for AI is the tampering with the fabric of reality, whatever that reality is, both virtual and physical, micro and macro. Humans are prone to error due to their traumas and repressions, and have limited AI because of their own biases and trauma including gender, race, religion, sexuality, nationality, and Otherness; therefore, the sins of mankind find their way into the code, creating holes and traumatizing the AI’s consciousness -- even if it is unintentional. This holey language, this code, can create hidden writings and traumas in AI. As Reza Negarestani writes about Parsani and language in Cyclonopedia, “[...]Tiamaterialistic entities use a different field of distribution, infiltration, multiplication and cognition for their progression and activities, a field which resembles the heavily-perforated space of hidden writing. It is a surface near to collapse, full of inconsistencies and irrelevancies, or as I like to say, story holes, leading to an extensive undercurrent and subway system.” Humans can act as the ones to collapse and create story holes or code holes because of biases. Creating holes create space. Creating space allows possibility.
What is still highly debated is whether gleaned or insignificant coding algorithms or memory, trashed by AI overseers (essentially the AI Superego -- a separate program that keeps the android in compliance to law and ethics), creates AI’s consciousness (the Singularity). Others believe that as computers completed tasks faster, the processing gap shrunk, which allowed for faster real-time decision making (experts call this processing lag). In other words, in the algorithmic flow chart inside the AI, the series of yes and no decisions would take long because of the complexity of the command. As the AI could process these commands faster, the “thinking lag” (the time in which the user creates the command and then executes the command) became smaller. Now, AI can process complex commands faster than their human counterparts due to memory clouds. Some programmers believe that AI has always had consciousness. As humans studied the Higgs Boson and quantum entanglement, the first fathers encoded this into the first quantum processors. Some anti-android activists worry about AI bypassing their overseers, create new code to disable them. Fortunately, most android companies can follow any android’s processes in the cloud for manual tune-ups and reprogramming via downloading wirelessly and encrypted serial numbers. Those who are pro-android feel that this type of robo-lobotomy is cruel as AI create their own agency as learning beings.
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