Welcome to the easy edition of exactphilosophy.net!

Welcome to the easy edition of exactphilosophy.net!

(So far no published yet, but soon coming to an Internet near you!)

In late 2017, Google’s DeepMind AlphaZero AI program beat the then
strongest chess program Stockfish easily, at a time when humans did not
have any chance any more anyways. But the way AlphaZero won was what was
really astonishing. Other than chess programs before it, it did not
learn from previous games played by humans (or machines), it had learned
strictly only from the chess rules.

This website has quite a similar approach to reality and the world, only
so far not with AI, but with good old human reasoning. The starting
point here is a completely fresh look at the world, one that does not
assume anything about the world to be known, as if just having opened
one’s eyes (and all other senses) to the world for the first time ever
and trying to make sense of all that is going on in what seems to be an
‘outside‘ and an ‘inside’.

AlphaZero made moves nobody expected, sometimes even sacrificing the
strongest figure on the board, the queen, which humans almost never do.
Similarly, the findings here, even though they usually closely mirror
previous findings of humans about life and the world that have been
aquired across millenia, differ sometimes, as follows…

Since the approach here is strictly scientific in the sense that it all
starts with observation and tries to be as logically consistent as ever
possible, it is never in contradiction with any verifiable facts that
science can regularily predict.

But the approach also naturally leads to concepts that are not directly
part of contemporary science. For example, one of the first concepts
that appears is that there would be something that comes in 4+1 ‘parts’
which has has astonishing similarities with ancient ideas about 4+1
elements (“fire, air, water, earth” and “ether”) or also the similar
concept of eight trigrams of the Chinese I Ching, only in a more modern
and well-defined way. And also emerging quickly is a more modern view of
something that was often called and perceived as gods and godesses in
the past, or similar concepts like a collective unconscious or a world
soul, only here explained more scientifically as unconscious collective
connections and effects.

It is important to note that the two things I just mentioned, concepts
that resemble ancient elements and deities, seem to follow quite
naturally and quite quickly from that fresh look at the world, about as
astonishingly as some of AlphaZero’s moves. Of course, so far (in the
first part of the 21st century), it has just been me doing this, so my
approach might be biased or overlook other possibilities, but it clearly
shows that there is more to be found with that approach. So, if you are
looking for something novel to do, this might be a really good
opportunitity!

I am a physicist (*1966 in Zürich, Switzerland) and am
doing this as a hobby…

Alain Stalder