Focus on People, Models, and Thought
April 13, 2022
The most important mystery in intelligence is not a stream of generated language. It is the human capacity to form world models, connect meaning, choose possibilities, and live through the consequences.
Brian Greenforest places people and thought at the center of the AI conversation, drawing together Erik Larson, Sean Carroll, Carlo Rovelli, Bernardo Kastrup, and Federico Faggin.
Models Give Intelligence Its Meaning
People reach beyond predicting the next symbol. They construct internal worlds, revise beliefs, imagine alternatives, and coordinate action through shared meaning.
Questions from many-worlds physics, relational interpretation, idealism, and consciousness widen the engineering frame. They ask what an observer is and why a model matters to the life using it.
Invest in the Human Inquiry
Larson’s work challenges the assumption that more computation alone yields general intelligence. Brian’s reading connects that critique to a broader account of reasoning, experience, and possibility.
Read across computer science, physics, and philosophy. Then build systems that strengthen people’s ability to think, decide, and create rather than treating people as incidental users of a prediction engine.
Connect Human Models to the Machines That Execute Them
The linked multiplier makes computational mechanism concrete, while Erik Larson’s work extends the argument about induction, deduction, abduction, and human reasoning.
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Erik Larson please, add me to your 1st circle on LinkedIn (PM to schedule a phone call that I can express my gratitude for expanding my world view so profoundly like NO ONE ELSE).
Everyone else, click "Purchase Now" and READ READ READ. What are you waiting for? Your life is finite to pursue illusion like there's any hocus pocus inside. Focus on people, models in our heads, our intricate games, and sophisticated thoughts. Focus on MWI. On Sean Carroll, on Carlo Rovelli, on Bernardo K., on Federico Faggin. There's a common Transurfing and possibilities unfolding underlying all of our reality. Even time travel could be possible, after all. The biggest mystery, the biggest idea in the Universe is US.
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Comment 1 · (2022-04-13 07:19:10 UTC)
Sometimes I think only Robert Lanza, out of all people I know and respect, grasps the full picture. And Vadim Zeland is the wizard who intuited it all many years ago in his Transurfing Reality.
Please, talk to me, if you accept the simultaneous coexistence of:
1) Idealism
2) Biocentrism, chakras, chi, energy flows etc.
3) Many-worlds/Everett
4) Relational quantum mechanics
5) Direct perception
6) Time Travel
7) Magic
8) Transurfing Reality
9) Distributed Quantum Machine Learning (not yet a scaled for practical means technology)
10) Acausality and self-modifying quantum gravity.
I feel, and many things point toward it, that it is possible to create a working time machine. If you feel the same, let's seriously talk about that, reconcile our understanding of systems theory, Hilbert's 13th problem permutational exponential inability to scale without quantum computers, the fundamental primary nature of our consciousness, the suspicion that our own lives and the history of everything is a process of analysis done by a unified consciousness (not trying to speculate, just sharing the feelings).
Would be cool if you like to meditate as well, but it's basics. Let's share our research and information organizing tips and tricks!
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Comment 1 · (2022-04-13 07:19:10 UTC)
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Comment 2 · (2022-04-28 18:46:04 UTC)
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