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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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HOW DID THAT COME TO MIND? Meta-tations and the Illusion of Free Agency

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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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Emotional Learning

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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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In The Beginning Was The Word

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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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Consciousness IS Learning

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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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The Spirit of Uncertainty

The Spiritual Life of Uncertainty

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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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Spiritual Learning

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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

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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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