Algorithms and Babel

I was just watching a YouTube video about algorithms, and the speakers mentioned the concept of large language models, and how this is an element of AI communication. This immediately made me think about Babel. With AI communication, we are essentially ordering objects in our environment and providing the arrangement with instructions, in order to communicate with that arrangement, where communication could not have existed before. This feels like a mirror image of Babel, an inverted reflection, and a similar methodology, as we would understand it, could have been used to create language. It seems that the scenario at Babel was that freeform communication would be problematic, and perhaps is closer to how God "thinks" (as we would understand it). I can picture God embedding a layer between thought and word that created several/many divergent expressions for the same thought, whereas only a single expression would have existed per thought prior to this. What's really interesting to me about this, is that God would presumably retain access (possibly constant unfiltered access) to the expression of thought without this layer of language. In this way, God would identify resonant thoughts, and meaningful potential, developing from the pool of thoughts that those who have/are within the layer of language would not likely notice. God could influence the overall field from this position, without these influences being clear from any perspective where these languages exist, but where cause/effect could be traced back, if the entire data pool could be seen. I am also realizing how terrifying reality could be, if another entity were in this position, with different motives. I also cannot imagine a reality where ability (technology, intrinsic power, etc.) does not reach this level at some point, meaning that an entity would certainly be in the position to do something like this, in that moment.

This also got me thinking about the question I posed recently: how many independent consciousnesses can exist in reality, without interacting? This language analogy creates two distinct models for experience and interaction- one with thought expressed singularly, and another with thought expressed through one of many languages. With both of these models necessarily present in reality (at some point), it makes sense that one with "coding ability" and data access would need to act in a way that would allow these two methods to synchronize, making adjustments behind the scenes so that the final arrangement is viable (this actually feels like self preservation, in addition to benevolence). While God has immense power in accessing each side of this separated model, the potential of the two methods operating as one, in a single experienced model, is unfathomable. Is it possible to add a third unique process to this same model? Could one add a way in which communication occurs neither through seamless thought conveyance nor the crunchy translation process of words spoken (or body language used) to convey thought? This got me thinking about the combined model of these two methods, and how it could possibly act as this third unique method in the field, if the other two were somehow kept in the aftermath of its establishment. 

I feel as though I had more/better points when I first wrote this out, but my phone inexplicably died and, when I returned, my entire post (which should, and generally does, back up automatically) was deleted. Still, I feel like I have outlined the key points to a fair degree, and this feels like it will be the seed of a new branch of consideration for me (well, "Tree of Consideration").

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