A Thinker In Nature

To live is to confront. To survive is to evade. The more you evade the less you grow. The more you confront the less you fear. If you catch all of now, you can’t help but live. 🌱

AI is recursive computation, not intelligence. Recursion is the only property these engineered systems and humans share. Machines can compute, humans can think. These are not the same, never were and never will be. Therefore the proper name for AI is not SI, but RC — Recursive Computation. 🌱

What we call creativity, is not an innate giftedness some people possess and others lack. Anyone can choose to build that unique, deeply personal and ongoing relationship with uncertainty that constitutes it. 🌱

Creativity is inducing and persisting through uncertainty. Because to discover a new and deeper invariant of reality, you have to create and persist through uncertainty in the perception of an old one. Hence, the Open AI Navier-Stokes proof was not creative, but combinatorial.

You. Yes, you. I know your type. It's the same as my type, human. I know it presents quite a few universal challenges. Learn more about them and how we can overcome them here. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/a-scared-s... #humanity

Each and every one of us operates on top of a vast network of experientially accumulated predictions. Apart from the baseline constraints imposed by our own existential exposure how we make sense and act beyond that baseline depends on our own personal and unique histories. 🌱

Mathematics captures invariant relations in structure. If the universe were not invariant enough, no organism capable of self-modelling could have evolved. 🌱

On the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/mathematic... #mathematics #abstraction #invariant #reality

Sometimes maybe perhaps, but then again, impossibly likely. 🌱

Thanks W Social for making it possible for me to stay anonymous so my audience can encounter my work as undistorted as possible while I’m still taken seriously as human being and author. 🌱

Vendredi, c'est bon ça. 🌱

For coordination between the two owners, the architecture implies an approval workflow. Parameter changes require both keys. A proposed change to any layer enters a joint review. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/agentic-ai... #Agentic #AI #Governance

I feel incredibly isolated on bluesky, where are the rebels? the philosophers? the psychologists? the activists? the thinkers? the doers? the artists? the truth seekers? Let's connect, I want to see what you're up to and show you what I'm up to. We may yet shape the world. 🌱 #truth #art #connect

C'est la vie. 🌱

Don’t forget to go play hide and seek with yourself every once in a while. Where’s the thing you know for a fact you just had in your hands a minute ago? As per usual you will find the answer between an unsettling worry about early onset dementia and a self-vindicating mood boost.🌱

We emerged from and are part of the natural processes on this planet. Too long we have cowardly outsourced our fear of existence instead of confronting it. Always running and never questioning? You are part of the problem. Just start, slow down, ask why. 🌱

I write about how our solutions for tomorrow depend on recalibrating the human nervous system we have today. I also give out a manual on how to do just that. 🌱

Bluesky, please recommend my page to people who consistently choose truth over comfort. That’s my crowd. 🌱 #truth

Clarity creates peace. Build yours. 🌱

Remove the fear and you remove the hate. 🌱

Children see, adults look. Artists bridge between, never fully seeing, never only looking. 🌱

Thinking about governance of agentic AI… 🌱

What did Gutenberg enable? What did Descartes ignore? And why can't we finally get a grip on our emissions? If these questions spark your interest, you can read their resolution in "The Other Half". 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-other-... #climatechange #philosophy #science

Start Here... or don't. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/start-here

Clarity creates peace. Build yours. 🌱 A systems view of human experience. ► athinkerinnature.substack.com

That’s why norms, traditions, ideologies, cultural narratives, religions and values are so suspiciously local. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/what-are-we #childhood #development #perception

That’s what most people don’t understand about authoritarian governments—they do not perceive the repressive and often inhumane measures used to enforce certainty as an evil, but as a necessity. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/xi-jinping... #china #xijinping #authoritarianism #trauma

And through it all, risking to take over at any moment when faced with the smallest possible trigger—is grief. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/grief #grief #loss #mourning #healing

Since most of my writing so far has been utterly impersonal, I’ve decided to introduce myself a bit to my readers by providing some context on how this project came about in the first place. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/who-is-a-t... #Me #Story #AThinkerInNature #Why

That’s why a weekend in a new city is experienced as longer than a weekend at home. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/signal-dyn... #Consciousness #Mind #Human #Perception

At the heart of the pursuit for AGI lies a single question: What is conscious agency and how is it created? AI enthusiasts believe that answering that question mechanistically would finally open the door to the creation of a sort of supermind.🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/why-agi-is... #AGI #AI

The deepest mistake is to confuse propaganda with belief. A regime can survive without believing its own story. What it cannot safely permit is the emergence of a different story that people can act upon together. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-strate... #Russia #Maidan #Ukraine #Navalny

This tiny everyday experience reveals something surprisingly general about the human mind. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/i-know-thi... #Consciousness #Mind #Thinking #Curiosity #Fear

Like a muscle that is trained by repetition, repeated exposure eventually creates a hard-earned capacity to engage that uncertainty effectively. The creative person does not become fearless. They become willing. 🌱 athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/creativity #creativity #art #originality #creation

Your wetware makes me marvel. 🧠 🌱