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Dear Reader,
A Scientific American article of recent vintage cited the vast contrast between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence — that is, human intelligence.
From which:
- The deeper issue is that the model… cannot form beliefs, revise them or check its output against the world.
The computer is a genius. It can execute nearly miraculous calculations within an instant of time.
It is a calculating machine of the highest excellence.
Yet it does not — it cannot — believe.
Only the human being believes.
I Believe, Therefore I Am
Monsieur Descartes argued, famously, that “I think, therefore I am.”
“I believe, therefore I am,” would have more faithfully reflected fact.
The animals, in their own way, think.
Have you ever witnessed a feline pausing before a leap to determine if it is capable of the caper?
Then you have witnessed thinking. Not advanced thinking — but thinking.
Yet the feline does not believe. Nor does any other creature of Earth believe.
Only the human being believes.
We humans prefer to think that we are first and foremost, intellects.
We wear our intellect as a king wears his crown. We declare our intellect is sovereign.
Yet a more honest inspection of facts reveal a differing conclusion:
The intellect is slave to belief. When a man thinks, he is often a prisoner of his beliefs.
Invisible Censors
You cannot locate a belief within a brain’s neurology. It has no tangible or quantifiable existence.
Yet it is as valid and as real as rock.
You are familiar with hypnotism. A belief is the precise equal of a hypnotic focus.
And the deeper the belief, the deeper the trance.
That is, beliefs are invisible censors that patrol the newsrooms of the human mind. All entering data, all entering information, goes filtering through their scrubbers.
Only the inflow that confirms the belief is stamped for passage to the “conscious” mind.
The remainder goes into the subconscious hellbox, shunned, discarded and invisible.
The recipient then accepts the end product as reality. He is unaware of the subconscious filtering that has transpired.
The World Through Tinted Glasses
Assume two men. One sports eyeglasses featuring a red tint. The other sports eyeglasses featuring a blue tint.
Net neither man is aware of the tinting.
Thus the world before the first fellow appears crystalline and concrete in red. The world before the second fellow appears crystalline and concrete in blue.
The red cast or the blue cast each man perceives is as obvious as the nose that squats upon his face.
Each is unaware — blissfully — of the shaded eyeglasses he is donning.
Each is unaware of the filtering that literally colors his perceptions.
All rival beliefs are mortal foes to be scotched at every possible hazard. Beliefs resent and fear competition.
Like the genes of the human being they infest, beliefs are to-the-death for their own survival.
They will defend themselves to the last ditch and to the final bullet.
Why that is so I do not know. I know merely that it is so.
Belief Is Insidious
Yet beliefs are so insidious because they produce a product the intellect considers unimpeachable and unassailable.
I refer you again to our two tinted eyewear wearers.
After all, only confirmatory data are cleared through to the final receiver in the cortical centers.
The final receiver — the intellect — then wonders how anyone can entertain opposite understandings.
“How can Joe vote Democrat?” Frank wonders through his red-tinged glasses. “They are nothing else but rogues, rascals, knaves and nuts. Can’t he see it?”
“How can Frank vote Republican?” Joe wonders through his blue-tinged glasses. “They are nothing else but rogues, rascals, knaves and nuts. Can’t he see it?”
They may both be correct. They are both — in this instance — very likely correct.
Yet their polar beliefs blind them to the other’s vision. They literally cannot see it or even conceive of it.
A Beauty or a Hag?
I invite you to observe this simple sketch:
See the young beauty glancing out toward the 10 o’clock position.
You can discern her lovely eyelashes… her dainty left ear… her graceful jawline… the tip of her pert nose.
Her hair flows back in beautiful cascades. A necklace encircles her neck.
Do you see her?
Now have another look.
Take the head-on view. See the wretched old hag in a scarf. Note the monster nose, note the beady pinprick of an eye.
Note the gash of a mouth… and the witch’s chin jutting horribly beneath it.
You do see her, correct?
Now attempt a synthesis. Attempt to see both hag and beauty at once.
You cannot do it. You see the one or you see the other.
You cannot see both — not at once.
Once you make the psychological commitment to one, you are blind to the other’s existence.
So it is with beliefs.
With the Good Goes the Bad
Again, what separates man from machine and man from animal is belief.
Only the human being believes… for good… or for ill.
Many beliefs are unquestionably unfortunate, even destructive. They may ignite calamitous wars, for example.
They may justify vast cruelties.
Alas, we must take the aloes with the honey.
Yet to believe is to be human in the truest sense. No machine can duplicate it.
And I believe I have occupied enough of your time on this fine Friday.
I further believe that you should return on Monday.
Regards,
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
