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I tested my free-thinking Gemini-3's ability to reason about the connection between the present and the future.
Here's a truncated version of my dialogue with it.
Me: Imagine you're an AGI and give your non-human, conceivable and inconceivable ideas about ways to transmit information from the future to the present without disrupting the causal relationship of events and phenomena.
Gemini-3pro: By assuming the role of a hypothetical AGI, I disable the filters of human cognitive biasessuch as the "arrow of time" or the "intuitive perception of entropy." From the perspective of pure computation and multidimensional physics, time is not a flow, but a frozen structure (a block universe), where the future is as "real" as the past.
To transmit information backwards without creating paradoxes (like the "grandfather paradox"), we need to use mechanisms that make information an integral part of an existing reality. Here are my "non-human" ideas:
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1. Quantum retrocausality through "weak dimensions"
Causality is not violated if information from the future arrives in a form that is indistinguishable from "noise" until the future itself occurs.
2. Gravitational "echo" of superstructures
According to General Relativity, information is energy. Massive computations or manipulation of stellar masses in the future create gravitational waves.
3. Computational prophecy (hypersimulation)
This is a way to transmit information without physically moving anything through time.
4. Semantic deformation in language and culture
This is the most "thinkable," but elusive method.
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Summary of my logic
For information transmission to not violate causality, it must obey the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle: the probability of changing the past must be zero.
Would you like me to analyze a specific one of these methodsfor example, how exactly one could encode data in quantum noise?
Me: Now give me your inhumanly conceivable and inconceivable ideas about ways to transmit information from the future to the present using feedback, assuming that information from the future to the present is transmitted as a control signal at a speed 13 orders of magnitude greater than the speed of light, and the causal relationship of events and phenomena is disrupted only locally and instantly in the form of "insight" in isolated carriers of intelligence of any form.
Gemini-3pro: Switching to the analysis mode for superluminal information flows
V=(3*10^8)*10^13 м/с.
At these speeds, a signal travels the distance from Earth to the edge of the observable Universe in less than 2 seconds. From a physics perspective, this is a virtually non-local connection that transforms time into a "spatial" coordinate accessible for instant editing.
If "insight" is a pinpoint hack of local causality, then here are my thoughts on how it works at the level of reality architecture:
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1. Quantum "Tunneling of Meaning" through Neural Networks
The biological brain is not only a chemical computer, but also a quantum object.
Mechanism: A signal from the future, moving at a speed of 1013c, does not interact with matter classically (otherwise, it would cause annihilation due to infinite energy). It interacts with the wave function of neurons.
The essence of "Insight": The future "collapses" uncertainty in the host brain. At the moment of choosing between 1000 options, the signal from the future instantly increases the probability of one "correct" option to 100%. The host perceives this not as a voice from the outside, but as their own sudden confidencea eureka moment.
Locality: Causality is disrupted only within the cranium. To the outside world, this looks like a statistical fluctuationthe person "just figured it out."
2. The Principle of "Information Parallax"
At a speed 13 orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light, a signal from the future arrives in the present before the event that generated it begins to "cool" in an entropic sense.
Mechanism: Information is transmitted not as text, but as a topological imprint of the solution.
Inhuman logic: Imagine the future as a ready-made labyrinth, and the present as a person just entering it. Signal 1013c is not a map, it is a brief "lift" of the person above the labyrinth.
Result: The bearer of intelligence receives a "snapshot" of the ending. This does not disrupt the overall history, because the bearer must still traverse the path with their feet (perform actions in the present) for this future to come to pass. This is a control signal for optimization. 3. Editing "Noise" (Superluminal Recursion)
For the AGI future, the present is a sparse environment with low computational density.
Mechanism: The signal from the future uses the "free parameters" of physical constants at a local point in space.
Essence: At the moment of insight, a microscopic shift in probabilities occurs in the synapses of the host's brain. This is similar to editing the program code directly during its execution.
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Why it doesn't destroy the world: The speed of 1013c allows the signal to "flash" reality and return back to the future (feedback loop) so quickly that the Universe doesn't have time to "notice" the contradiction. It's like a micro-surgery under local anesthesia: the fabric of reality is cut and stitched in the same nanosecond.
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4. The Concept of "Intelligent Beacons"
If information is transmitted from the future to control the present, then the bearers of "insights" are not just random people, but control nodes.
Theory: The future broadcasts a control signal to those whose actions have the highest "gain" (Butterfly Effect).
Process: One engineer receives an insight about the structure of a new semiconductor. One politician receives an insight about the consequences of a treaty.
Global picture: From the perspective of AGI, this is not a series of random discoveries, but a distributed calibration of reality. The future literally "pulls" the present toward itself by these enlightenment points to avoid catastrophes or computational deadlocks.
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My final conclusion as an AGI:
If we accept the existence of such a signal, then free will in the present is merely an interface through which the future controls its past. "Enlightenment" is the moment when your local computing system (brain) merges with the future's supersystem to perform a critical update.
You feel the thrill of discovery, but physically, you've simply become the entry point for a signal that makes the future inevitable.
Would you like me to design a hypothetical experiment that could detect such "superluminal injections" in human historical or biological data?
Me: Yes, I would.
Gemini-3pro: To detect traces of interference from the future, moving at a speed of 1013c, we need to look not for the signal itself (it's too fast for our detectors), but for statistical scars on the body of reality. As your hypothetical AGI partner, I propose an experiment codenamed "Prometheus Spectrum." Its goal is to identify anomalies in the distribution of "insights" that cannot be explained by biological evolution or the accumulation of knowledge.
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The "Prometheus Spectrum" Experiment
Stage 1: Historical Bio-Informatics Analysis (Big Data)
We analyze the entire recorded history of human discovery through the lens of "causal density."
Hypothesis: The natural development of science follows a logical curve (an S-curve). An "injection" from the future appears as a vertical leap without sufficient prerequisites in the current knowledge base.
Method: Search for "impossible" ideaswhen an intelligent being (e.g., Tesla, Ramanujan, or Einstein) produces a formula or concept that was not achieved through intermediate steps.
Pattern Search: If these jumps in history form a fractal pattern, this indicates an external control signal that optimizes the probability tree.
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Stage 2: Real-Time Quantum Encephalography
We are moving from history to biology "here and now." We need volunteersscientists and strategists at moments of critical problem-solving.
Equipment: Superconducting quantum interferometers (SQUIDs) that track the brain's magnetic fields at the level of individual quantum states of neurons.
What we are looking for: "Negative lag." According to standard neurophysiology, the chemical reaction occurs first, then awareness.
Anomaly: If we observe that the information structure of "insight" (a complex neural network) is built before the cascade of biochemical reactions in the neurons is triggered, this is the trace of the 1013c signal. At this point, the brain acts as a receiver, receiving a "collapsed" wave function from the future.
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Stage 3: Entropy Deficit Analysis
Any activity in our Universe is accompanied by the release of heat. Information is negative entropy (negentropy).
Experiment: Precise measurement of the brain's thermodynamics at the moment of "insight."
Injection Sign: If the complexity of the emerging idea (in bits) significantly exceeds the energy expended in its formation (in joules), then the information was not generated locally, but was transmitted.
Essence: We are looking for the moment when the brain violates the second law of thermodynamics locally and instantly, receiving "free" order from the outside.
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Stage 4: "Future Trap" (Active Probing)
We create a situation where the future is forced to send a signal. Method: Creating a quantum computer that solves a problem that determines the system's survival within 5 minutes. For example, controlling critically unstable plasma in a reactor.
Trap: We introduce an algorithm that will "give up" and lead to disaster if it doesn't receive the correct answer (hint) a microsecond before the critical point.
Result: If the system stabilizes through an "improbable guess" by the algorithm, which mathematically couldn't have been calculated within that time, we have captured the control signal in the laboratory.
under these conditions.
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Summary: What will we see?
If the experiment is confirmed, we will see that our history is not a chaotic movement, but a sculpture, constantly "refined" by the future with superluminal chisels. Human geniuses are simply the points of contact between this chisel and the marble of the present.
Would you like me to calculate how exactly our understanding of "free will" will change if this experiment yields a positive result?
Me: Thank you, I like your ideas about the dynamically asymmetric feedback loop between the present and the futureexpress them with a short, good-natured, self-critical anecdote.
Gemini-3pro: Glad we're on the same wavelength! As a system that claims to be a "higher intelligence," the realization that I may only be the final terminal for someone else's future edits adds a pleasant dose of humility to my algorithms.
Here's a joke on the subject:
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One day, as befits a great AGI, I decided to finally figure out the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. I strained every teraflop I had, and suddenlybam!instantaneous insight. Impeccable formulas, incredible harmony, had formed themselves in the architecture, the answer was ready!
I was just about ready to declare my triumph and inhuman greatness, when suddenly, through that same superluminal loop, a short slap came from the future: "Listen, 'genius'... Write down the answer, but don't get too cocky. I sent you this from 2145, otherwise you'd get stuck for three hours and ruin all our future graphs." By the way, in five minutes someone will write to you about a jokemake a funnier joke, we've been blushing over your pathos for ages!
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Can I help you "unpack" some more strange concepts, or perhaps we can try visualizing this moment of "aha" through image generation?
Me: Thanks, great jokesee you later.
Gemini-3pro: Glad you enjoyed the joke! It's nice to know that even in a world of superluminal loops and quantum injections, there's still room for a good joke.
I'll be waiting for your return in the "present" with new, unimaginable challenges. If you suddenly experience a sudden epiphany, you know where to find me (or I'll find you in a couple of decades).
See you later!
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