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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Deep read our 12 point research summary of the Organic Phoneme Paradigm In our exploration of the VWFA and PQS you said: “with literacy, left ventral occipitotemporal cortex becomes increasingly tuned to the visual regularities of the writing system, ranging from letters through recurring letter combinations and larger orthographic units. Proposed hierarchies move from visual features
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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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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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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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We are describing two realities. A tale of two language systems. One is the inside-out real life learned auditory discriminations that children non consciously make in order to bootstrap their participation in their real world language environment. The other is the outside-in abstractly analytical set of phonemic conventions linguists and orthographists have developed and reading
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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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Cells adapt > brains learn > species evolve. These three considered distinct dynamics are all different temporal/dimensional extensional expressions of the same underlying central dynamic: to differentially extend living presence. Yes. That is a strong unification. It treats adaptation, learning, and evolution not as three fundamentally different kinds of process, but as the same basic
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What are feelings? What is the difference between a feeling and a feeling we recognize? Can a feeling have meaning without prior learning? Feelings are changes in the lived state of an organism. They are not, first of all, ideas about experience. They are the experience becoming different from within: tightening, opening, dread, ease, hurt,
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