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AI is coming and much of it, of course, is already here. You may need better protection. Your may need to upgrade the software your brain is currently using (Greco-Roman Logic) and get much faster software for your brain.
AI is coming. By 2030 there will be two dominant thinking machines on Earth. Carbon. Silicon.
Carbon – best example the human brain – is 15 billion years in development. It’s far, far superior to AI silicon machines. Silicon can’t even laugh or sing. However, silicon may be beating us in the software race.
Most human brains are using English Thinking, which is excellent but not enough to stay ahead of silicon thinking. English Thinking uses, as it’s operating system, Greco Roman Logic. The binary algorithm of Right/Wrong, Black,White, Us/Them etc etc. Inside the box thinking. It’s 2500 years old.
We need to upskill to outside the box thinking. We need trinary thinking. What we need to do is to upgrade our software for the brain especially the PFC (Pre Frontal Cortex). It may only take around 10 hours of expert lateral thinking coaching per human brain. For a clever Australian government this would be less than the cost of a single nuclear submarine.
silicon may be beating us in the software race
Nothing on Earth is more powerful than lateral thinking. For example its ten times faster than ChatbotGPT which also uses Greco-Roman Logic. It cannot think outside its own box.
ChatGPT cannot do lateral thinking.
I was born with the ability to think. At some point instead of thinking I have become a programmed reaction to stimulus. Sure, I think to some degree, but in the main it would be safe to say I have set patterned responses, this means that, so do or say this… Thinking, yes, but on a shallow level. Gain pleasure, avoid pain. Simple really. To transition to being a skilled thinker is a little intimidating. What would I need to give up? Where’s the safety net? So the motto for me – Skilled thinking is a potential which needs direction to be realised.
Good thinking, Rob.
(Translated from French)
Agree on the role and necessity of metacognition with however a prerequisite which is the mastery of one’s own language, especially to work with children and young people. Indeed, knowing how to manipulate one’s language, to say things in different ways, to be sensitive to humor and to practice oneself are all very valuable skills for reflection and the ability to deviate from one’s own mode of functioning. which is precisely one of the markers of metacognition. All the technology will not help us much if we do not develop first and foremost our capacities as human beings.
It simply conveys that I can change and learn to think better if I want to. It further conveys that everyone, regardless of race, gender, preference or beliefs can learn to think better. It also reminds me that ‘wanting to learn or think differently’ is humanity biggest challenge. A challenge we’re right in the middle of.
While thinking may be innate, good thinking is not. The brain has a natural mechanism and if left to its own is terribly inefficient and unreliable. Thus while everyone may be a thinker or is born a thinker, to be a skilled thinker is not natural. Thinking, i.e. the use of experience for a particular set of purposes, is a skill and just like any skill, i.e. piano, karate or even typing on a keyboard, it is improved only by constant and deliberate practice with the use of tools that are external to the brain that functions as “attention-directing” or creates movement as in lateral thinking. In the end, becoming a good thinker just like becoming a champion tennis player or golfer requires constant, deliberate practice over a period of time. There are no shortcuts to being a skilled thinker.
To me this motto conveys hope, and motivation. If people were simply born skilled thinkers then there would theoretically be no possibility to change one’s circumstances after birth. While some people are move naturally gifted at certain skills than others, we all have the ability to increase our own skill level through practice and persistence.
The little we know about natural skills that we are born with, if any, shows that we always need to discover ourselives. Good thinking is produced not by any particular special ability, we can be good at whatever we want , practicing and training make it possible for anyone to acquire any kill .
This is a good motto to remember as thinking is another skill that can be practiced and mastered. It is good to know that people don’t just become thought leaders when they are born. They have to take lessons, practice and be guided to a way of thinking that can lead to a breakthrough. If I want to be a thought leader I have to learn to think differently and practice until I am mastered the art of thinking.
I understand that we are not born a “Skilled” thinker . But what kind of thinking are we born with naturally unskilled , clumsy ,inept or incomptent. What impact is there to the world and us if we don’t build this skill …
I also think that mostly we take for granted that because we have the ability to think it is already at a high skill level .
I feel there is so much work or thinking or practice I have to do to change the tendency to assume i am thinking so it must be skilled thinking into always be open to a different , better view !!
In order to be a skilled thinker a person must be curious about how they think. A child has curiosity. Being a skilled thinker also requires awareness which a child develops later.
That thinking is a skill that needs to be developed, just like other skills such as walking, touch-typing, juggling etc… If we stop practising these skills, eventually, they will diminish over time. So we must continue to use the skill in order to gain/keep mastery of it.