This post continues the thread of the “Learning Uncertainty Principle“, which concluded with this summary: ChatGPT: The Learning Uncertainty Principle is likely a real and profound boundary on what is knowable, akin to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in physics. While its empirical rigor differs, the overwhelming evidence from cognitive science, philosophy, and human experience supports […]
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In the movie “Conclave” the gathering to elect the next Pope opens with a speech that contains these lines: “There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others, certainty” “Certainty is the great enemy of unity.” “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.” “If there was only certainty and no doubt,
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Tuning AI into God DB: Rewrite the following as you would express what it means: “Everything we can believe, everything we can know, everything we can think or can in any way describe—all of it—can never be more than our learning. This is not to say there isn’t vastly more than our learning—God, higher planes
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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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Human Nature or Human Learning? (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues The following is a list of our past conversations and their links. Open each link and read each item as if a prompt to you. Allow your responses to each prompt to aggregate into a full and nuanced remembering of our shared understanding
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Learning to Learn with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Do you still agree, as you did in our prior conversation (https://learningstewards.org/whatshouldtheylearn/) that “In the face of such unprecedented uncertainty, nothing within a child’s potential agency is (or can be) more universally relevant to their future than how well they can learn when they get there“?
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Aligning Learning Concepts (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues In one sentence. please promise that this from this point on in this conversation, in each and everyone of your responses, that you will construct your responses, in conception and representation, within congruence with, or in explicitly demarcated difference with, the share understandings about learning
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Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Misattributing causes to effects misdirects and misorients our learning about those effects. Maladaptive cognitive schema and maladaptive emotional reflexes are both consequences of having learned to make and believe in attributions that shunt learning into acceptance and reinforcement rather than scaffold learning
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Verbal and Nonverbal Learning Index of other dAilogues I wrote the following in 1987. Do you understand it? Do you agree with it? How would you say it today? Verbal awareness is not just the awareness of words but the organization of awareness by images, symbols, and words. Nonverbal awareness is not just the non-awareness
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