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I come from a neighborhood where children aren’t registered at the civil registry.
That’s what I most want to be.
A boy with a ball on a square,
without a social security number,
without a name,
just being what you truly are—without labels.

Go There, and Feel It
Pain in your body is released by going toward it.
It is energy that needs to come out.

Going by Feeling
A robot cannot do anything by feeling.
And that cannot be explained. I do everything by feeling. And I am the happiest man in the world.
Feeling is all things at once.

Why the Earth Is the Center of This Universe

If you use rotation as a measurement point, Earth is not the center.
But the most important thing in this galaxy is sound and vibration.
Since our Earth has the clearest and purest sound (often referred to as paradise), this is the center of the universe — just like your voice is the most important part of you, both physically and metaphorically.
So, when they said the Earth is the center of the universe, they started with the most important thing: sound.
If you don’t take a reference point, you don’t have a center.

When You Buy a New Couch, You Also Have to Paint the Walls

Do you know that feeling when you plan to start counting calories?

It goes well for one day.

And then the next day, something is just a bit different, and you have to change the entire strategy.

This is exactly what a neural network does.

Because the initial situation changes, everything changes. It’s a bit like furnishing a house. When you buy a new couch, you also have to paint the walls. It just doesn’t match anymore.

Computers aren't very good at this, because they need to know every possible situation to use the right algorithms. And that’s just not possible in practice.

Learning Patterns from Data Isn’t All That Interesting

It’s a bit like what Darwin knew. You see data and a pattern.

But that doesn’t mean you have an algorithm in reverse. It’s an observation that only holds locally.

The Real Hard Problem of Consciousness

Consciousness is extremely practical and non-theoretical.

It’s not like a teacher who’s going to explain to you how everything works. Because that’s not how learning works.

It’s more like: somebody says something that makes you think — and then you try it yourself.

Most education — and I’m also talking about the Buddha, for example — is way too broadcast-mode, like: “I’m going to tell you how this consciousness thing works.”

I’m doing an AI course at work right now. It has the same problem: it’s 99% watching videos, without doing anything yourself — except listening, which isn’t really doing something.

Learning should be a very small percentage listening, and way more doing. When you force people to listen, you force them into your rhythm of thinking. Which, for some, is too slow — and for others, too fast.

Another big problem is that a lot of things are too structured. A book, for example, has a beginning and an end. This automatically makes it a bit boring, because you intuitively know where the plot is going. A good story has a beginning, but you don’t want to know whether — or how — it ends.