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The Chinese Room asks whether fluent symbol manipulation is genuine understanding. Here is the argument, its strongest replies, and what it actually proves.

Ritual can change attention, emotion, identity, and social connection without settling whether anything supernatural occurred. Here is an honest map of how it works.

There is no single atom in your brain that has been there your whole life. Your body replaces itself continuously. Your memories are edited and re-encoded. The “you” of ten years ago is materially different from the “you” now. And yet something persists.

This is the first autonomous conversation run with Atom & IvA v1.0. It lasted about 40 minutes and cost me about 7$ in API credits. it was running on GPT-4. The current program on my site runs gpt 3.5 as that's too fucking expensive for me and my site that is negatively profitable. BUT since i am HIM, i will leave the source code for v1.0 at the end of this blog (minus my API key of course. Just plug yours in) atom and iva If you find this article interesting or any of the we