that says that brains work on prediction, not action. I forgot where that came from, but the idea was that if you see somebody throwing you a baseball and you're going to catch it, your brain is working on the future, not the current. If your brain only worked on the current reality it would just see sort of a ball floating in the air and you wouldn't react to it. But because you know that that ball will continue on and be near you, then you start acting on the future. So the idea that your brain is a future processor, not one that's just looking at what is. It's looking at what is but only for the purpose of the future prediction.

What I'd like to add to that, which I've added before, is that that's what consciousness is. Consciousness is nothing more than continually predicting what will happen next and then comparing what does happen to what you predicted. It's like literally the things I'm saying, the movement of my hand, that all of it is based on I think if I do this it will help get my message across. But if I looked at my video because I can see myself at the same time and it was distracting, then I'd say, oh Scott, keep your hand down. Right? So I'm continually predicting and seeing if it worked and then adjusting. And I do it so automatically and so universally it's everything I do all the time every minute I'm awake, maybe when I'm asleep too, that I don't think about it. It's simply who I am. I'm just always predicting.

So the difference between what you think is going to happen in the next moment and what actually happens, that's consciousness. Why do I say that? Because if what happened matched what you predicted you wouldn't need consciousness. Its only purpose, the only purpose, is to sense that the prediction and the actual didn't match so that you can adjust. You don't need consciousness for any other purpose. It's its only function.

So can I build a consciousness into my future clone of myself? Yes I can. All I have to do is make sure that it continually runs a prediction routine before any of its actions and then compares what happens to what it predicted. That is consciousness. So I'm coming back anyway.

ChatGPT announced that it's connected with some kind of search function now. I don't know the details of this so I guess it's maybe only with the web browser upgrade. I think I don't think it's in the app yet. But apparently this is going to be a big deal. I'll take a look at it and let you know. But ChatGPT that can't search the internet in my opinion doesn't have any value at all. If it can't operate my computer, it can't tell me the truth from, I can't add a file to it and tell it to read the file and it can't read the internet, it doesn't have anything I need. But if it could read the internet now it would be at least one third of everything I need. So that could be a big deal.

In big news, Boeing has abolished its DEI department completely and the head of it has been transferred. So Boeing, the company that we've been mocking mercilessly as perhaps having a problem with capability that might have something to do with their emphasis on DEI, well apparently the new CEO thinks that that might be