I suppose if the AI told me that I were in (and part of) a simulation/dream/other miscellaneous illusion, the fact that an AI in a real world wouldn’t ever be able to derive sufficient (false) evidence of it not being real would be sufficient evidence that only an AI in an unreal world would say that it’s in an unreal world. Doesn’t solipsism (not that I’m a solipsist) hold that as the most/only sure thing to exist, one’s own mind would be the craziest thing to doubt the existence of?
That’s why Descartes said “I think, therefore I exist”. He was trying to strip away everything that could be doubted, and being conscious of the conversation he was having with himself, thought, well that conversation is something, something which I call me, and it exists—how can I be in this conversation and simultaneously doubt that it exists—even if the world and my body are all illusions.
Solipsism is deciding that’s all there is, or in a weaker form, that that’s all I’m sure of. After indulging in the doubt-fest, however, Descartes was so far from solipsism that he thought he could prove the existence of God.
I suppose if the AI told me that I were in (and part of) a simulation/dream/other miscellaneous illusion, the fact that an AI in a real world wouldn’t ever be able to derive sufficient (false) evidence of it not being real would be sufficient evidence that only an AI in an unreal world would say that it’s in an unreal world. Doesn’t solipsism (not that I’m a solipsist) hold that as the most/only sure thing to exist, one’s own mind would be the craziest thing to doubt the existence of?
That’s why Descartes said “I think, therefore I exist”. He was trying to strip away everything that could be doubted, and being conscious of the conversation he was having with himself, thought, well that conversation is something, something which I call me, and it exists—how can I be in this conversation and simultaneously doubt that it exists—even if the world and my body are all illusions.
Solipsism is deciding that’s all there is, or in a weaker form, that that’s all I’m sure of. After indulging in the doubt-fest, however, Descartes was so far from solipsism that he thought he could prove the existence of God.