Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an […]
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I once spent a day in Salt Lake city with a team of Mormons engaged in developing educational software. The owner of the company had flown me in after reading about my work on “learner interfaces“, “distributed learning processing“, and how they meet and merge into each other in what I call a “miraculous intersection“.
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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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Spirit of Learning – Religions – Zen – God – Jesus – Talmud Mohammed – Buddha – Native Americans – All God’s Names We began by remembering and agreeing to apply our shared understanding of learning. Then… DB: Now we can proceed to: “learning as the spiritual breath of living”. Living, the verb, the activity
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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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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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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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Implicit Epistemological Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Is there a branch of science focused on “pedagogical epistemology”? Focused on exploring how humans learn to “boot up”, below their awareness of agency, through learning to become better adapted to the epistemological structure of their lives, including those implicit in language, family, culture, experiences
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