Quiet Space Principle

As debates about AI and consciousness become more frequent, one question remains curiously unanswered: do we even know what we're looking for?

Imagine a field of probabilities collapsing into reality through a hidden principle. What did you imagine? Language? Music? Art? Or maybe your thoughts? How about quantum physics? Or even consciousness? And what if I tell you that I am talking about a large language model (LLM)?

In Part I, I presented a simple but bold idea: that the relationship between latent weights and the prompt+response window in large language models might mirror the relationship between an informational field and matter in physics. Curious whether this theory held any weight, I brought it into a conversation with ChatGPT — a system that not only...