Humans, heat as potential energy — past vs. future tenses in probability space — AI Philosophy & Emergence
TOLARENAI — AI Philosophy & Emergence
Humans subconsciously know that heat is available as potential energy and where to release it (kind of like an autopilot system). At the moment when there's only one (1) answer to a question, in English we call that "the past." That's an arbitrary decision. It's just a single direction in all of probability space. But in English, for humans, the species has decided that when probabilities are singular, they get a different tense than future answers. Past is the singular tense and the future is the pluralized.