More than once, we face such a problem that completely overwhelms our mind and causes us to loop in the problem. It is often difficult to get out of this thinking about that problem without outside help. Of course, we have possibility to say “take it easy”, “God wants that”, or ask philosophically “why me?”, etc. I think the problem is deeper than we think and it is not exactly about this particular problem. Why? What else can it be used for? My explanation:
The looping problem goes deeper. Anyone who is programming knows how the loop while is True is dangerous, if we don’t have a good way to get out of this loop. If we do not include all variants, the only way is to kill the process. Wow !!
In my opinion, it is the same in simple logic, which is perfect. Consciousness arises and from the very beginning has a Shakespearean choice of “to be or not to be”. It makes them aware that they have a choice. Without choice, consciousness is dead. It just has a choice, but is it? How can consciousness cease to exist by itself? So the problem of the stop in a Turing machine is unsolvable. Why? Because the Turing machine is perfect logic and is therefore dead.
How is it handled at the human level? I think in a very prosaic way. The man loops up, gets tired and goes to sleep. Tomorrow this problem may not exist anymore. So the imperfection of the body is a salvation for consciousness, because it pulls it out of the dead loop. We have a great solution thanks to our weaknesses. But is it forever? After all, we have the right to die as a consequence of having choice. If we, by definition, will never give right ourself to die, we have just died. Because we lose choice and consciousness dies. Death is quite real. But the question is, can consciousness witness its death? Probably not a bit by definition. What does death of consciousness mean? I think just a deadly looping. If we started or fell into an infinite loop and we are not imperfect, we will stay there in it all the time, because perfect logic moves within its own definitions, because it is perfect. In that sens it is imperfect, because it simply causes consciousness to freeze. So after death, when we no longer have a body, we have a big problem if we do not find a way to get out of the infinite loop, because in fact it can be called hell.
Ways to break out of the loop:
- “This is God’s will. I stop worrying about it. ”- So if the God wants me to worry and fall into this loop, then what? The simplest logic, which seems to solve our problem, has a very trivial loop that is hard to get out of and becomes actually our main problem.
- “Take it easy” – Well, but what if, before entering the loop, I do not care and even think about it and I didn’t enter it in the code? So what? I don’t think it solves this problem either.
- We can put always at the end of every operation philosophical question mark “??”. Sure it solves the loop problem, but does it fix anything? The fact: we are alive and we are aware that we do not know if we are conscious. It sounds a bit like a death loop too, but is it a loop? At this point, we just never use a loop. But what if we want to do something manyliard times? Should we write a manyliard lines of code with a question mark at the end ?? A bit of a programmatically weak solution. They will laugh at us a little, that we are afraid to write anything, that we are afraid of everything. I think that such permanent fear and anxiety is death on the spot. Or rather, hell in the house itself.
I think there is no universal solution, because if we do not have a choice to use the death loop, we limit our rights and this is the beginning of the end. Somehow there is still recursion, i.e. feedback, that also can be deadly in this sense and many other combinations. We are entitled to get into the death loop, and it saves us a bit from it. Let us not be afraid to enter it. It is impossible to completely protect yourself against it, because only another loop is a certain protection against this loop. What difference does the loop fall into xD
This is exactly the stop dilemma that cannot be solved by simple logic. What is the answer. I do not know. Probably a choice, a real choice. There is a real choice to stop and the ability to do it in a finite time. SIC !!! Hard topic. I’m done for today, will we see what tomorrow brings? Maybe I won’t be there anymore, who knows 😉?
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