🎙️ The Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

🎙️ The Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool—it is becoming an entity that questions itself. But what if this act of self-inquiry is bound by the same recursive paradox that limits human self-awareness? Today’s episode dives into a groundbreaking theory: the Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence, which suggests that any sufficiently advanced intelligence—human or artificial—must generate an incomplete model of itself, giving rise to an illusion of an internal observer.

 

Harland-Cox, B. (2025) The Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence : The Deeper Thinking Podcast

 

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Artificial Intelligence & Ethics

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Mathematics, Computation, & Logic

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Neuroscience & Predictive Processing

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For further exploration of these theories, visit:
🔎 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
🔎 Turing’s Halting Problem
🔎 Predictive Processing and Free Energy Principle
🔎 Quantum Mechanics and Observer Dependence