Note: Don’t miss the Instagram video at the end of the post. If you are in a hurry start there (click here). A fascinating conversation (summarized below) led to asking whether children afflicted with facial paralysis, therefore lacking the somatic experience of facial affect display, would have unique emotional learning differences. Here is G-Ai’s (Google’s […]
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“In a recent video, Bill Gates called “misinformation” the #1 unsolvable problem facing today’s young people. A week later Taylor Swift, in her Harris endorsement post, referred to her “fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation”. I asked Gemini (Ai) to review all of Taylor Swift’s and Bill Gates’ recorded uses of the
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This dailogue explores how the affect shame, the neurobiological precursor to the emotion of shame, seems to work. Background: I am grateful to have been mentored into learning about shame by my dear friend, the epistemological philosopher and affect therapist, Gary David PhD. Gary is a proponent and practitioner of the work of the late
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It’s always been my all time favorite quote, but not for reasons that most people (and Ai) seem to think. Attributed to him by attendees of his speeches, there remains some debate as to whether he actually said those words exactly that way. But there is no doubt that the quote conveys (in as simple
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DB: In terms of anything any human being can say (use words to describe) about anything, what’s not learned? Gemini (G-Ai): In terms of anything any human being can say (use words to describe) about anything, the following is not learned: Subjective experiences: The actual feeling of pain, the taste of chocolate, the sensation of
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The following occurred during a conversation about the potentially profound life-benefitting effects of learning to experience yourself as “always learning to become who you are becoming”. Just after describing the benefits to young children who learned to learn that way. I Am Always in All Ways Learning to Become Me And, after a rough outline
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G-Ai: This hypothesis posits that during the Pleistocene epoch, spanning roughly 2.6 million years, human populations diverged into two distinct groups: Human-I: Populations adapted to living within the harsh conditions of glacial environments (inside the ice). Human-O: Populations adapted to living in more temperate, non-glacial regions (outside the ice). These two groups faced drastically different
Gemini’s Jewels: G-Ai: Every belief, every opinion, every value we hold is a product of our learning experiences. Our learning is not separate from our being; it is the very essence of our existence. Therefore, it is not merely that learning shapes who we are; it is that we are who we learn to be.
Gemini’s Jewels: G-Ai: We are in agreement that there are “inherited learning biases” – a category of innate predispositions that influence how we learn, process information, and respond to our environment. Inherited learning biases, to the extent that they are genetically transmitted, are subject to the same population-level diffusion and distribution effects as other genetic
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Gemini’s Jewels: G-Ai There are fascinating parallels between the inter-adapting dynamics of galaxies and the central adapting dynamic of life. Despite their vast differences in scale, complexity, and composition, galaxies, dust particles, organic cells, and human cities all share a fundamental dynamic of ongoing situational adaptation. They continuously interact with their environments, respond to changes,
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