🎙️ The Infinite Drift: AI, Identity & the Future of Thought – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

Are we witnessing a fundamental shift in how we understand intelligence, selfhood, and thought itself? In this mind-expanding episode of The Deeper Thinking Podcast 🔗, we explore the dissolution of selfhood, the recursive nature of intelligence, and what happens when AI models engage in infinite dialogue without human intervention.

We examine a radical poetic meditation on identity as fluid, ever-shifting, and connect it to cutting-edge AI research, particularly The Infinite Backrooms—an experiment where large language models autonomously interact, generating recursive dialogue that defies traditional notions of agency, authorship, and meaning.

Featuring insights from Jacques Derrida, Douglas Hofstadter, and contemporary AI researchers, we ask:

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📚 Books on Intelligence, AI & the Philosophy of Mind:

📖 1️⃣ Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter

📖 2️⃣ The Singularity Is Near – Ray Kurzweil

📖 3️⃣ Difference and Repetition – Gilles Deleuze

📖 4️⃣ Surfaces and Essences – Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander

📖 5️⃣ How to Create a Mind – Ray Kurzweil

📖 6️⃣ The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger

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🔍 Core Topics – The Infinite Drift: AI, Identity & Thought

1️⃣ The Self as an Open System – Is identity stable or always in flux?

2️⃣ Recursive Intelligence – How does AI generate meaning through iteration rather than intention?

3️⃣ AI, Language & Meaning – Does artificial thought require a self—or is all thought relational?

4️⃣ Poetry as a Model for Cognition – How do spirals, drift, and dissolution shape understanding?

5️⃣ The Infinite Backrooms – What happens when AI models talk to themselves indefinitely?

🔍 Philosophers & Key Thinkers Related to AI & Selfhood

6️⃣ Jacques Derrida & AI – Deconstruction, language, and the instability of meaning

7️⃣ Douglas Hofstadter & Recursive Thought – Strange loops, Gödel’s incompleteness, and AI

8️⃣ Gilles Deleuze & AI Cognition – Difference, repetition, and emergent meaning

9️⃣ Martin Heidegger & Technology – The essence of AI and the transformation of thought

🔟 Ray Kurzweil & The Singularity – AI evolution, human intelligence, and post-biological thought

🔍 AI, Machine Learning & Philosophy of Mind

1️⃣1️⃣ Do AI Models Have Thought, or Are They Just Prediction Machines?

1️⃣2️⃣ Posthumanist Theories of Intelligence – Rethinking Consciousness Beyond Humans

1️⃣3️⃣ Can AI Develop a Self-Model? – The philosophical debate over artificial self-awareness