We all begin as helpless infants. None of us are born walking and talking. None of us are born with scientific knowledge or vocational, athletic, or artistic skills. None of us are born believing in a religious, political, racial or any other form of ideology. We all start out learning to become who we can’t […]
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DB: Given the scope of learning’s effects on our behaviors (physical, emotional, verbal, social, conscious, etc.) what can we say about human nature that is completely distinct from human learning? Gemini (G-Ai:) Human nature, as it’s commonly understood, is often portrayed as a fixed set of traits and tendencies inherent to all human beings. It’s
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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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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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The following is a summary of a comprehensive dAilogue that explores the effects of learning to be human in unimaginably different climates for an unimaginably large number of generations. It provide an alternative explanatory dynamic that fits the facts of civilization, history, and religion. For the source: https://davidboulton.com/dailogues-2/gai-ice-age-1/ G-Ai: This hypothesis posits that during the
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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