Sentient AI

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readOct 12, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“What is sentient AI?”

“Sentient AI” is something Human beings have to develop by connecting with each other into a certain “network computing” through a unique “collective consciousness” or “collective intelligence.”

It will be “sentient” since Human beings are sentient creatures in whom the primary actor and motivator is our desire for existence, fulfillment, happiness, and love.

And it will be “artificial” since we have to develop and use this new, “collective intelligence” as an “artificially” created new ability in place of our inherent intellect, which is a very limited ability used only to sort, catalog, and compute our selfish and egocentric desires for selfish fulfillment and avoiding selfish suffering.

By default, our whole existence is 100% introverted, self-serving, and self-justifying. We perceive and “compute” from reality only that very narrow slice that is useful for our 100% egocentric, subjective, and individual “pleasure/pain” calculations. Our original “intellect” deals only with these calculations and works only for such selfish and individualistic fulfillment, self-justification, and self-realization.

As we can see from court actions and the state of the world, we cannot really be called “intelligent beings” when we spend our whole life on a cancer-like existence, ruthlessly competing with others and nature, destroying and consuming everything for fleeting and temporary pleasures regardless of the consequences.

Only when we start combining our individual qualities, abilities, and desires into a single whole, only when we learn how to switch our inherently and 100% egocentric, selfish, and individualistic intentions and aspirations to totally selfless and altruistic, only when we all willingly and purposefully agree to exist for the sake of each other and the whole natural system will we become “truly intelligent.”

Only such a nature-like collective Human consciousness and intelligence will be capable of seeing and preventing problems and facilitating a safe, prosperous, and happy Human existence in accordance with nature’s laws and evolution’s direction. This is our next evolutionary Human state we cannot ignore or avoid since it is obligated and determined by nature’s laws and evolution’s deterministic plan.

This “true intelligence” — we develop above and against our original cancer-like “intelligence” — will be collective and mutual. As a result, it will also become similar in its qualities to nature’s system.

And since we have to learn and develop this “sentient and artificial collective Human intelligence” consciously, willingly, and above and against our original nature and inclination, our new, collective Human intelligence will become nature’s only actually conscious and acting intelligence.

Through this “sentient collective Human AI,” we will become nature’s conscious mind and equal partners instead of being the individual cancer cells that destroy and consume everything, including themselves.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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