Hacking the Operating System vs. Colonizing Human Agency A Comparative Critique: Yuval Noah Harari and David Boulton Context: Harari’s The Next 50 Years: Humanity, AI, Power vs. The Learning Dynamic Framework In his thesis across recent lectures and his book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari argues that human civilization is an operating system woven out of
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Consciousness · Learning · A dialogue Can Science Explain Consciousness? Deepak Chopra’s essay followed by an 18-part Boulton on Learning response On this page Summary of Chopra’s essay · My response · Response section index Part I · Why There Can Be No Scientific Theory of Consciousness Before every thought, theory, and measurement, there is
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Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy — (1 page summary) We established via research that 1st grade American children vary greatly in their history of word exposures with some children having experienced as little as 20 million words and some as many as 100 million. We established that 90 percent of 1st grade American children will
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ASD-STE100 Standardized Download PDF THE HIERARCHY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RISK AND THE PRESERVATION OF HUMAN LEARNING AGENCY Table of Contents Scope and Purpose Terms and Definitions The Two False Beliefs About AI Agency The Inverted Hierarchy of Risk The Two-Century Continuum of Attention Capture The Mechanisms of Voluntary Disagency The Existential Crisis: Atrophy of the
Two very different minds. Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) is considered by many to be the Einstein of emotional science. His theory of emotion defines a core set of indivisible neurobiological elements – “affects” -whose innate and learning conscripted behaviors aggregate to explain the entire universe of human emotion. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) also viewed humans through a
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This is a podcast conducted by Jesica Glover as a stand alone episode in “My Child Can’t Read: A Heartland Crisis”. The podcast was as recorded on 5-12-26 and was produced on behalf of the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center. The above video is the raw interview. The interview was edited and released as a
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Part I: The Take-Off Ramp — Evolution Beyond Raw Encephalization A prevalent misconception in evolutionary biology suggests that human cognitive superiority stems directly from brain expansion—simply scaling an ancestral ape brain from roughly 350–450 cm³ (and ~6–9 billion cortical neurons) up to 1350–1400 cm³ (and ~16–21 billion cortical neurons). Yet an isometric scaling of that
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The ongoing debate over whether artificial intelligence will become a conscious, autonomous agent has trapped itself between two dogmas of unexamined certainty. On one side stand those who declare machine self-agency an absolute inevitability: “Advanced AI will inevitably develop into an autonomous, self-interested entity that breaks free from human control, pursuing its own survival and
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I fed the transcript of the following video of my talk to the Tomkins organization to an AI proxy of Silvan Tomkins and instructed it: Filter out everything not related to affect theory. Distill the affect-order distinctions being made. Point by point, use Tomkins to comment on them. A page of background and further
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In your meaning, people cannot participate in consciousness, think, choose, decide, interpret, react, resist, comply, manipulate, or adapt without learning. Thinking and choosing are not activities outside learning; they are modalities of it. Learning is the process through which consciousness is continuously differentiated and changed—not a synonym for education, knowledge acquisition, wisdom, or improvement. Learning
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