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Nov 19 2025 - Questions to Benevolent AI

Questions I'd like to ask a benevolent superintelligence:

What is life exactly, and how did it begin? What set the process of evolution in motion?
What is the exact path evolution took to arrive to humans?
Where are the aliens? Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe?

Why do we dream? Why do we age? Why do we sleep?
Do we have free will?
How does the human brain learn?
Are human desires programmable?
What are emotions?
What separates humans from other animals?
What are the limits to human understanding? Can we understand everything?
Why do we have a single thread of conscious experience?

Can computers have consciousness? Are NAND gates conscious?
Can computers experience information like we do? Can they have qualia?
Are computers capable of self-reproduction?
Are human beings and computers equivalent? Can we move freely from one medium to the other?
Is the extended Church-Turing thesis true? Is all of reality computable?
What comes after neural networks?

Why is the Universe explicable at all?
Why do we have the laws of physics and constants that we have and not others?
What caused the Big Bang?
Is the Standard Model of physics even correct?
Is the Universe deterministic?
Do we live in one of infinitely many universes?
If the Universe is indeed a simulation, what is outside the simulation?

Is meaning discovered or created?
Is morality arbitrary?
Where does knowledge come from? Where do ideas come from?
Why do civilizations collapse?
How long will humanity last?

What discoveries are out there that would shatter our perception of reality?
What core assumptions about reality are wrong?
What questions should we be asking, but aren't?
What exactly are we experiencing right now?


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