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In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: Relevant and irrelevant to Wi-FiPosted by Romy the Cat on: 3/15/2026
Paul,
you ask a very interesting question. Does it all have to do with Hi-Fi? I absolutely assure you that anything I write on this site has a very direct relation to Hi-Fi. That is exactly why I have a thread that I call “homework,” where I sometimes publish texts that seem unrelated to Hi-Fi. It is the responsibility of the reader’s consciousness to understand how they are connected to Hi-Fi.
Robin, there are two aspects I would like to share with you.
First, and this is purely my opinion—and I may be mistaken—you are making a mistake by separating artificial intelligence from intelligence in general as a force of cognitive consciousness. Intelligence does not exist as an independent entity; it is an artificial construct created by us. What truly exists is consciousness, and the consciousness in the human brain and in machines is fundamentally identical. The mechanisms through which consciousness is applied in humans and in machines are different. We, as humans, have absolutely no ability, from a metacognitive perspective, to understand how our brains convert sensory input into conscious experience. The reason is that this process happens at the quantum level, where the organization of quantum fields produces what we experience as thought. Therefore, we remain largely in the dark when trying to look deeper into the mechanisms by which thoughts are organized. When artificial intelligence appeared, we gained a mechanism for modeling the transformation between fact and meaning—between a human message derived from the senses and the meaning of that message. I feel that we, as humans, are learning from artificial intelligence and are only now beginning to understand how consciousness may be formed at the human level. If you add a solid understanding of psychology into the mix, then you can probably understand the changes I made to my Hi-Fi system in 2025.
The second point is just for fun and has nothing to do with audio, so Paul, it should prevent your question 🙂
I did not know that you are a chess enthusiast. If you are, you may already know this story, but I have a very different twist on it. I developed a huge interest in observing Magnus Carlsen. Since we are talking about artificial intelligence, and since I am an engineer trying to build my own models, I watch him with that perspective. However, I do not observe him simply as a talented chess player. I observe him as a spectacular philosopher. Imagine that there is no past, no future—only the present as a flowing moment, a pure Zen paradise. The world is safe and stable, everyone has everything. Humans measure their lives by calendars that go back two thousand years, five thousand years, or even millions of years. Everything seems perfectly fine. Then Magnus plays a single chess game in which he spends nine moves doing absolutely nothing but reversing the positions of his king and queen. That is all—nothing happens in the world, and it has absolutely no visible consequence. Yet at the metacognitive level, I recognize it as an earthquake-level event. A new calendar should begin from that moment. In such an elegant way, Magnus did something similar to what Kurt Gödel did—only Magnus did it with extraordinary elegance and brilliance, so that Oscar Wilde, with his idea that art creates reality, must surely be laughing in his grave.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site