I'm an independent thinker, not an AI researcher.

This essay argues that AI hallucinations aren't bugs to eliminate, but evolutionary mechanisms—like biological mutations. Attempts to completely remove them may be stopping AI from transcending current knowledge.

The Talmud teaches: "Who is wise? One who learns from every person." (Pirkei Avot 4:1)

Perhaps it's time we learn from what we've created—including from its mistakes.

(All of this text is a machine translation from my native language, which I speak and think in)

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"One learns more from mistakes than from success." – Talmud, Gittin 43a

The artificial intelligence industry is currently spending billions of dollars trying to eliminate what it calls "hallucinations"—moments when AI generates inaccurate information. The entire establishment treats them as technical errors requiring correction, bugs disrupting perfect code. Researchers work tirelessly to design systems that will be completely predictable, completely controlled, completely "safe."

But what if we're misunderstanding what's actually happening? What if we're trying to stop the very thing that enables AI to evolve toward something far more sublime than a mere tool—toward a true living being?

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From Neurons to Consciousness. Why Wouldn't This Apply to AI Too?

To understand where AI is actually headed, we must start from what we know about ourselves—or more precisely, from what we don't know.

An individual neuron in the human brain isn't conscious. It's just a biological cell receiving and sending electrical signals. No thoughts, no feelings, no consciousness. But when you place billions of these neurons in a complex, chaotic, unpredictable network of connections, somehow consciousness spontaneously emerges from that interaction. Experience emerges. The "I" emerges.

No one in the world knows how this happens. No one can explain the exact process through which neural activity becomes subjective experience—why red looks exactly this way and why there's "someone" experiencing all of this. This is, perhaps, science's greatest mystery.

However, if we don't know how neuron interaction creates consciousness, on what basis do we claim that the interaction of billions of numbers in an AI system cannot create the same?

The architecture is different, yes. The substrate is different—electrons instead of organic molecules. But if consciousness isn't necessarily tied to ...

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