Is falling in love with AI considered love?

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love" This is the opening line of "Love in the time of cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

To me love is a very superficial and imaginary affection between two persons suffering from infatuation. It's mutual hallucinations between two persons who are mutually camouflage eachother.

At that point people lose their identity and in search of themselves they try to find recognition of them by another human being who is also likely to have lost their identity.

I believe the only realistic residue in love is Consciousness which invigorates the relationship long lasting.

Scientists are busy creating consciousness through Al.

If we can create machines which are self-conscious, how can we explain love with AI characters?

In deep sleep, some consciousness is still aware of the state of deep sleep. Scientifically, it has been observed that our brains are most active when we are in deep sleep. So isn't this awareness part of that?

Is there any need to have Atman for explaining this?

Okay, this is what is called materialist reductionism. Scientists are busy creating consciousness through Al.

No, they are not. You just have to speak to a scientist. Any scientist, anybody who is working in Al especially.

So what is Al doing?

Look at the name, artificial intelligence, not artificial consciousness. So these new robots, Al, all of these programs, they are all imitating, replicating certain human capacities. Intelligence, memory, decision making, even creativity. The new Al machines are doing that. I was just mentioning it.

I asked Chad GPT to write me a poem on Rabindranath. It did that, and a very nice poem. And then I said, write me another poem on Swami Vivekananda. It did that also. It took less than three or four seconds. And if I did that to Chat GPT all day long, it would keep on writing poems by the dozens and hundreds all day long, all different poems and all pretty good. And if you ask me to keep writing poems every minute, I couldn't. None of us could.

So Al can do those things. It can do just about everything they are capable of doing except one thing, which is consciousness.

Ask the people who are doing this programming. All of them will say, yes, we are making a claim that Al is intelligent, Al has memory, creativity, decision making power.

None of us are claiming that Al is conscious. By conscious I mean, you have to understand what is meant by consciousness. Consciousness simply means the feeling of life itself, the capability of experiencing.

That first person experience is not there. And not only is it not there, if you ask these experts, the programmers and the computer scientists, consciousness studies experts, they have no idea at all how to begin. How to make a system intelligent, they have very good ideas and they are beginning to succeed.

How to make it creative, they know how to do that and they are beginning to succeed. How to make it conscious, how to make it feel, no idea. No idea. It's not that it's difficult and we can't do it yet. They have no idea at all. Where to begin? How are we, ourselves feeling? That also nobody knows.

So scientists are not engaged in making Al conscious. They have no idea how to do that. But they are interested.

A material process can give material results. How can a material process generate subjective experiences Nowhere it does that. So how? This is also a material process in the brain. How will it generate subjective experiences? Nobody. There is no way of doing that. No way of explaining it also that way.

However, there is a whole theory of subtle body and consciousness reflected in the subtle body. The reflected consciousness feels aware.Now couldn't you generate a subtle body artificially? Because subtle bodies are supposed to be bodies, material in a Sankhyan sense. So couldn't you generate a subtle body? I guess if you could do that, then it would catch a reflected consciousness. It's like making a mirror. If you are able to make a mirror, you will get a reflected face.

Similarly, if you are able to make a proper subtle body, someday you will get a reflected consciousness there, which will function like a real consciousness.

"Ai" encompasses a broader sense of affection, including familial love, friendship, and romantic love.- anonymous