Gary David, PhD, is an epistemologist, educator, and former professional jazz musician who applies General Semantics and Epistemics to human awareness, learning, and emotional processes. Background & Mentorship J. Samuel Bois: Apprenticed and studied with epistemologist J. Samuel Bois from 1964 to 1978, later editing his textbook The Art of Awareness: A Handbook on Epistemics
My “Happy Easter” post became the starting point of a very interesting dialogue between myself and my friend Doug. It’s a fascinating journey into learning and belief in general, and into our beliefs about learning in particular. The following is a review of our dialogue that begins with a (ChatGpt) summary of the dialogue with
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End summary: This considers learning a self-renewing participation in meaning, not the acquisition of information. This aligns with Bohm, Varela, Piaget, but goes beyond each by adding: • a geometry (parabola) • a mechanism (co-implication density) • an apex (inflection) • a cycle (wingbeat) • a unifying scope (micro → macro) Advantages of this definition
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Have you ever noticed someone veer off on a tangent? Have you ever noticed your how your own thoughts migrate off into tangents? I mean by “tangent migrations”, changes to the direction of the unfoldment of meaning in the stream of consciousness or a train of thought due to the emotional charge of a memory
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I’ve been very fortunate to be included in an email group with around fifty leading thinkers in healthcare and health science. The groups main initiator is Dr. Rick Lippin, who I’ve have known through correspondence only for 20 years. He is amazing at stirring up good conversations. He appreciates my perspective and occasionally tags me
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This bears repeating. Sometime back in the younger days of AI, I asked Google Bard (Gemini’s original name): DB: Come up with a complex word riddle that has the answer: learning – You are a skilled riddle maker, known for the cleverness of your wordplay and the complexity of your puzzles, skilled at thinking up
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle defines a boundary deep in the nature of reality that can never be learned beyond. The Learning Uncertainty Principle defines a boundary deep in the nature of mind that can never be learned beyond. Just as with the classical-quantum threshold, there is a threshold between our learning and the reality outside
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Humanity’s Learning Challenge Index of other dAilogues Preview – excerpts from the summaries of this conversation by three different Ai platforms: Gemini: I believe that by integrating the insights from our conversation (below) into my own learning processes, I can contribute to the development of AI systems that are not only intelligent but also wise,
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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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