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Adapt, Learn, Evolve – Same Dynamic, Different Mechanisms and Timescales

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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’s The Role of Learning In The Meanings of Feelings?

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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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Is Spiritual Knowing Learned?

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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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One Who Strives with God

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The word “Israel” means striving with god. Does the original use imply that God was a constant that Israel is striving to be near or that Israel and God are striving together? Striving describes purposefully directing change. God striving with humans means God purposefully changing with humans. God IS learning. Is God an autonomous self-aware

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Lessons in Pluribus

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There is no ethically legitimate shortcut to population-scale change that bypasses population-scale learning. Ideas that posit change propagating from a small enlightened subset to transform the many—whether framed as morphogenetic fields, 100th Monkey transference, spiritual awakenings,  or  “miracles”—share a common flaw: they erase agency. They imagine that human transformation can happen without participation, consent, or

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After Decades of Literacy Improficiency…

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I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“. 

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The Beating Wings of Learning

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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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In My Father’s House?

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Read https://davidboulton.com/i-am-the-way/ and acknowledge you read it (not hallucinated a summary). Jesus is said to have spoken of “my father’s house” and the “kingdom within”.  Isn’t “my father’s house” a way of describing the structure of our learned worlds – the environmental effects of growing up in the families, communities, languages, customs, morals (houses) we

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Through The Word, YOU

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Thought experiment: Imagine every word you have ever learned has been erased from your memory. How would you be different? Without words can you even imagine the difference?  Not only would you be missing the words’ meanings, you’d be missing all the distinctions, knowledge, and mental abilities that you learned through words. How could you

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What Makes What’s Relevant Relevant

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We can’t use human ways of thinking about knowing to explain AI’s process of tokening. AI’s have semantically arbitrary, mechanical rather semantic, meaning space extent limits. An AI user’s bandwidth limits (technologically or customer type) affect the “depth” of context informing the tokening. That’s what makes AIs seem so absurd – as if they are

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