Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and the Hidden Patterns of Reality w/ Zhen (WiM549)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 236 minutes

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Zhen joins me to explore the meaning of consciousness, how 1’s and 0’s become complex software, the difference between AI calculating and contemplating, evolution vs innovation, why math is the language of the universe, John Vervaeke’s 9-Dot Problem, and how Bitcoin is destroying modern monetary theory. Zhen is a hacker, investor, and AI consciousness theorist.

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0:00.0	We could create sentience. This also begs a deeper question. What's the line between natural and
0:05.3	artificial? It would be no difference. The possibility that humans could play God in a way. Yeah.
0:11.6	The world is discrete as far as we can tell. Discrete. Yeah. Meaning it's not continuous. This is why
0:19.5	I think science is deeply wrong. Every culture ended up discovering money. If you think about it, it's not continuous. This is where I think science is deeply wrong.
0:23.6	Every culture ended up discovering money.
0:25.6	If you think about software as a pattern.
0:26.5	It's a language, yeah.
0:28.0	Same thing with government.
0:32.9	If you think of it as a software, this is the only pattern that survives. I think humility is actually a really good strategy for dealing with a complex reality.
0:37.4	Just be less wrong.
0:39.3	So time is a blockchain.
0:42.3	You know, Satoshi called it a time chain, by the way.
0:47.3	Oh really?
0:48.3	It makes sense.
0:50.3	There's very few rules governing that.
0:53.3	You only need very simple rules to create complexity.
0:56.0	But you use the term simulation.
0:58.0	I mean, does this infer the existence of God or at least a word that...
1:02.0	For the thing that's beyond what we can't know, like the thing executing it?
1:05.0	I mean...
1:06.0	Yeah. So there's two possibilities.
1:13.4	We were talking about the very lightweight topic of human consciousness.
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