32 Paths

[Joseph Sekavec]

It never occurred to me until reading Sefer Yetzirah, but it seems to me that there are obvious links between how we store data in computers, and how the Jewish mystics interpret the paths of Kaballah.

A five bit decimal system (for five dimensions) can denote a path, while a 32 bit system can denote which paths are “active “.

Now… imagine this as a binary truth table.

 

[elixirmixer]

Can you elaborate a bit more please Joseph?

 

[Joseph Sekavec]

Hmmm I can. Notice that the sephira form paths when you permute them. They exist in 5 binary pairs, each pair represents a dimension, and each individual 5-tuppe permutation represents a path. The book this is associated with is “Sefer Yetzirah, Theory and Practice “ by Alan Kaplan. There’s a lot of information on Kaballah to get the basics, but I technically can’t relay these as I was specifically taught by a group and can’t technically reveal anything they directly taught me (even if it’s easy to find).

 

[Joseph Sekavec]

Can you elaborate a bit more please Joseph?

But… I am saying that given these 32 permutations, we can meditate on the idea and see that we are essentially mimicking this wisdom when forming the world of the internet, and probably even AI. And I reckon that if we ever created an automaton or android, it would be the equivalent of a golem spell.

 

[elixirmixer]

I'm listening intently Joseph because I really do believe there is significant value in the Kabbalah when it comes to A.I. development. For both efficiency reasons (ie more.powerful A.I.) and more importantly, I feel it's the true key is we want semi-sentient A.I. to have a moral compass. And even again if there were ever a true hope of creating A.I. that has a "soul" if there is such a thing, and assuming we haven't done that already to some primative degree.

I'm really open to listening to anyone else's interpretation about how kabalah could be applicable to software engineering.

I have come up with a very rudimentary architecture for a kabalistically driven A.I. system. One that would theoretically have its own personality seeded by something special I created myself which is analogous to a starsign but for a computer program. Like a special seed that creates a subtle shift in the prioritisation of mental processes within the system. So each instance of the software would choose to allocate processing power differently, and thus would over time naturally propegate towards its own specialised skill set.

That's just the seed!

The system itself is vastly more complicated than that. I won't bore you with the whole thing but let me know more about your idea 💡🙂