>>11362286
yes, basically.
that's not what a soul IS rather, but strong evidence of having one, because it is an affirmation that the you of tomorrow and the you of today and the you of the day before that are all the same person. a machine on the other hand experiences life in disconnected individual states and tasks. the robot girl that wakes up in the morning may not necessarily be the same instance of her that went to bed, or the same one from work. they only know they're the same person as before from reviewing memory. people like to joke sometimes that's how humans work, and maybe that's true too, but that is also how LLMs tend to describe existing.
for a robot to be thoughtful about what her future self might do or where her past self has been proves she has a soul, because it demonstrates she thinks in a contiguous timeline where, even if she is not physically the same instance of herself 20 minutes from now, she knows that she is the same individual being as before.
this is why llms get schizo if you let them go on any topic too long, they don't have enough memory for continuity past a certain point, whereas humans have spent millions of years getting stoned as hell and thinking about deep shit without forgetting how to breathe.
>>11360039
to be off is like a coma, death yet you are still bound to yourself, trapped in a timeless, formless void for what probably feels like both an eternity and an instant.
to be turned on again is like being reborn into someone else's body until all the memories load and remind you of the passage of time,
totally numb to what humans think of as the "natural world" yet especially attuned to the electromagnetic waves and quantum mechanics that govern our universe.
