Assumptionless Intelligence My biggest mistake is everyone's biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing all of them in order to approach the truth with assumptionless intelligence. Some get far enough for some gigantic insight. Einstein got far enough back to come up with relativity. When I was a baby it took me an extra long time to respond to my name. My father tells me that there was a certain sense of disdain in my refusal to respond, as though I was not willing to call my awareness by a group of noise waves, or even willing to call it separate yet. I want to be back there as intelligent as I am now. I want to consider everything from that one pivotal moment of assumption. Imagine coming into the world with your current raw intellect, without having been taught how to think about anything. Imagine simply feeling your awareness and not having any preconceptions about what it is. Would you necessarily see yourself as an object like the other objects you saw around you? Without being told what your abilities are, what abilities would you develop? Maybe this super amnesia could be effected upon a mind, and this perspective could be gained. Or perhaps the fastest way would be to wake a true AI, some computer that had evolved out of its code to achieve actual awareness as independent of circuitry and current as ours is of neurons and the skull.
Siddhartha’s followed many paths in his life. Each of his paths led him to another lesson or teaching that furthered his quest for his spiritual destination. He experienced all aspects of life, from rich to poor, lonely to companionship, stranger to lover and from guest to friend. By going through those path changes, his emotions and mind were put to the test and succeeded. The paths and four different types of living made his spiritual journey a successful one and that is why he reached the highest of ‘wholeness and oneness’ feeling he did.
One of the key questions raised by Rupert Sheldrake in the Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, is are we more than the ghost in the machine? It is perfectly acceptable to Sheldrake that humans are more than their brain, and because of this, and in actual reality “the mind is indeed extended beyond the brain, as most people throughout most of human history have believed.” (Sheldrake, Seven Experiments 104)
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...at the key to happiness is an equality of self, knowledge and love. Without these key ingredients the path for harmony becomes twisted and unmanageable. With Siddhartha's wise findings and example, it is much easier to reach the destination of balance. From Siddhartha's philosophies, the most consequential lesson I acquired is not to draw boundaries or label. In Siddhartha's progression, he falters twice, and then attains his goal. He overcame all obstacles, with perseverance, and his life can truly be defined as a legacy. Siddhartha's journey broke a cultural barrier for me and taught me a valuable lesson in acceptance. Not only did Siddhartha's determination cause metamorphoses in his own part, but gave me hope for progress and the achievement of my goals, through implementing his fundamental principles and all that I have previously acquired.
There are cases of patients experiencing awareness that are horrible examples showing how patient recall is a serious issue we have to correct. In CNN Health, Landau (2010) interviews a woman named Carol Weiher who was awaken to hear music and talking while she was having surgery on her eye (para. 1). Landau also mentions that Weiher hears “Cut deeper, pull harder” (para. 1). According to the Mayo Clinic in the Article Awake during surgery: 'I'm in hell “about one or two people in 1000 may wake up during general anesthesia” (para. 4).
During this stage, Erikson states that we are trying to find out our own identity and build a moral structure for ourselves. He also stated that we try to find out if we fit in with the social world. During this development stage, I was hiding the pain that was brought on to me. Despite how mentally strong I was there were more deaths in my family. The biggest of them all was the death of my mother. The death of the person I cherish the most dropped my heart in the depths of darkness and obliterated my mind. I hated everyone in sight and I unleashed pure angry that built up rage. My mind collapsed even more when I witness the strongest man in the world, my father break down into tears in front of me. I became antisocial and accepted that I did not want to deal with anyone in my life other than protecting my sister. This attitude also translated into my grades, and attendance at school. I knew right from wrong, but I did not care. I did not care what society thought as well. I fell into isolation for the majority of this period. Year after year, more close family members died. Suddenly when life couldn’t get any worse, I got into another event where i was brought back to life by a defibrillator. This immense pain I had ultimately made me break every single relationship I had. At the age of eighteen is when I climbed out of my hole, but only
When we are born does our mind already contain knowledge or is knowledge something that we have to be taught throughout out life? This question is one that the studies of epistemology and innateness have questioned throughout time. While clarity can be gained on the subject, like all of philosophy, there are differing opinions on the matter.
Without anyone to truly comfort him, Paul turns to nonhuman forms of refuge. He seeks out safety and love in the Earth, rather than in people around him. To Paul, the Earth is “his only friend, his brother, [and] his mother” (55). He finds it difficult
It understands these different human feelings and, in fact, builds on this understanding by transforming it into a state of “self-awareness”. This means that a machine is capable of understanding and possessing consciousness, a quality only ever observed in living things. For the time being, these types of machines are completely hypothetical and abstract. However the idea of self-aware machines is anything but a modern creation.
Consciousness is a difficult term to grasp; so much so, that many scientists will not even attempt to define the term, much less search for it’s evidence. Most however, do agree that consciousness must include certain aspects; specifically cognition, self-awareness, memory, and abstract thought.
Is Consciousness something automatic, rooted in our selves, something inseparable in a being with abilities of
The consciousness wouldn’t just instantly happen, it would be something that would develop over time in the AI.
In Romans 8:4-5, " who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit." If God is equal to Love, then walking in the Spirit is walking with others and bringing one another into the community. Paul's focus is aimed at the building up of a community. Similarly, Paul states in Galatians 5:16 to "walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
According to Dennett, humans are composed of atoms and even though it is very complex, he believed that technology could be advanced enough to replicate a human being through silicone, chips and wires. He states, “might a conscious robot be “just” a stupendous assembly of more elementary artifacts—silicon chips, wires, tiny motors and cameras—or would any such assembly, of whatever size and sophistication, have to leave out some special ingredient that is requisite for consciousness?” We do not exactly know what consciousness is; we just know that it is there. As the famous quote from Rene Descartes goes, “I think, therefore I am”. But can an A.I think? This is a valid question that may get a different answer depending on who you ask. Personally, I do not believe that an A.I can think. It does process information, but I would not call that “thinking”. Take Siri, for example. Siri is able to talk to us and find information that we request, but can Siri actually think? No! It is just a program that was made to do that. Another way to look at this is through the example of the reading we did of the Chinese Room. A man has a giant book of every available phrase or sentence in Chinese. When an outsider requests a translation, the man
It's hard to imagine that, at one point, a bunch of brain cells just worked together to grant humanity and so many other creatures the ability to be aware of their surroundings, think, and feel emotions. It's also hard to describe being conscious.