MAKING

Last week, we’re touching on the concept of neural network, how it works by creating a number of hidden layers that map each connection to new ones. We’re also talking about the recombination of elements (Pinker’s discrete combinatorial). Having both in mind, I’m just simply remixing the Train of Thoughts browse extension from Week 2.

I’m adding a feature to reverse the flow of my browser extension. Instead of the passiveness of user (where they just wait for the browser extension to do its magic), they have to type a story or just some words, then, the browser extension will call the same gpt5 model to find various web addresses that have related titles to the input story. The browser extension then 'opens' the found web addresses, use this with caution, it causes a bad lag on my computer. Afterwards, the browser extension retake all the existing tabs, make it into another story and read it out aloud to me.

To sumarize, the browser extension go back and forth through the same flow of compressing words / story into the titles of web addresses, and then expanding them back into words / story, with a little modification of touch by adding sound (just to try out the model). This also reminds me of the way neural networks may divulge and convulge connections in their system.

LEFT

When I’m thinking of the Pinker and/or Deutsch’s framework, I’m thinking of other systems that reflect how one may live their life in society. After all, it seems that these systems are created to support the survivability of a society (e.g, in order to communicate varying messages). The system I’m thinking is the fashion style.

The type of fabric, color, cuts becomes as interchangeable as the alphabets in words, thus creating an infinite number of fashion looks combination. And just like grammar, it can be formal and informal (e.g, casual wear) as well.

RIGHT

There’s a remark by McGilchrist that caught my attention: humans’ frontal lobe enable them to inhibit immediacy (or the so-called [animal] instinct) and this allows room for evaluation before action is fired. He mentioned that without this frontal lobe, there will be no empathy. The distance that our brain able to create between ‘us’ and the world enables the quality of empathy to grow inside us, as we ascend to be in the third-person view.

This reminds me a lot that there was a short period in my life where I start disassociating with myself, in a way that I become aware and seeing my physical body talking to other people and doing actions from a bit of a bird eye level. There is a distance between my consciousness and my body. This happens after a traumatic incident which I myself did not think I was traumatised by it (is this the rational brain doing its work? Convincing me that I was just as normal as any day?), but perhaps deep inside the unconsciousness tries to ensure the protection of myself by causing a disassociation experience. Perhaps it is a way to remind myself to be vigilant of my physical self in order to ensure my survivability?

Of course, as suggested by the RIGHT prompt, I fed the previous traumatic complaint of mine to ChatGPT, to test out if Machine Learning’s able to find myriad correlations of correlations. I’m testing it to see how it may shed a light on the connection between my experience with McGilchrist’s idea.

ChatGPT Responses: a structured reply with an effort to connect the two premises (of mine and McGilchrist’s). By the way, it does this thinking job for 11 seconds.

It begins by breaking down McGilchrist’s argument of the brain’s ability to inhibit immediate impulses.

Then, it explains how dissociation fits in this context. It supports my hypothesis that the disassociation is an adaptive protective response to overwhelming experience. It prevents full engagement with unbearable experience by creating the “distance”.

After that, it tries to connect my experience with the concept of the brain distance and it even gives me some steps to be taken (without me asking for it!). It ends with a little disclosure that it is not responsible for any diagnostic.

NOTE: On Identity Crisis and Competing with ChatGPT

I'm confidently pasting this from my computer notepad because I write from time to time and wouldn't like to disclose my unfinished thoughts to the world before I'm ready (therefore pasting). I'm quiet confident that my writing does not sound like ChatGPT, but am I being too confident? What if I sound like ChatGPT?? Am I turning into one? Then what's the value of being myself and the difference of me and ChatGPT?

Notes
Neural networks are just a bunch of 'if' statements.

However, if statement is binary, while our world is not.

AI is paid by big companies (Google, Meta, Tesla, etc.)

Big companies are paid by their apps (Facebook, Google, etc).

The apps are paid by the advertisements.

The advertisements are paid by your attention.

Pinker - the syllogy of genetic combination VS combinatorial system of language

Is AI a mode of selective archival form? There are things that are prioritized and there are things that are left out in datasets training. For example, there are a lot of data training on people's face (due to social media), but not enough on an obscure language in Borneo because these people are generally not connected to the Internet.