The first possibilities that present themselves to the mind are more likely bad than good; therefore one should be extremely skeptical and reject most of them.

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• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.quote0.803
  Shunryu Suzuki quote used to illustrate the value of not over-training on prior experience during morphogenesis.
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.800
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.790
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.774
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Constraints and biases of human intelligence are best avoided by ‘designing for emergence’ rather than implementing a pre-existing theory of intelligence.claim0.772
  Recommendation for creating non-anthropocentric machine intelligence.
• Even if a case successfully meets all three criteria, this does not necessarily indicate that the corresponding sequence of representations is conscious. Rather, it suggests the observation of a potential 'consciousness' phenomenon within these representations — nothing more.quote0.770
  Load-bearing epistemic caution the author places on the entire analytical framework.
• A larger mind that is more conscious in the relevant sense could contain a greater amount of maximally-intense hedonic experience than a smaller mindhypothesis0.769
  Addresses the possibility of an in-principle maximum of hedonic intensity for mind scale
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.769
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception