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Bodies learn through the time it takes to weave things into tissues. They learn as patterns seep into the seven 'datu's, the seven layers. Learning and knowledge is an endeavor of bone marrow and blood and sweat, of breath and proprioceptive weaving over time.
How do human beings come to know? As AI proliferates, how do we embody the initiatory steps of knowing, if we outsource the learning process to systems that ultimately have no bodies? No skin with which to feel minute changes in the breeze, or changes in the mood of the forest?
Says Jeremey Lent, "The Human conceptualizing faculty, powerful as it is, is only one form of intelligence. There is another form - animate intelligence - that is an integral part of human cognition, and which we share with the rest of life on Earth." - Josh Schrei, "So You Want To Be A Sorcerer In The Age of Mythic Powers," podcast episode, last ~20m
(this thread is part 1 of a 2 part thread, continued here) https://t.co/VKVLF9g0oz
"Computer intelligence is unanchored from the initiatory and regulatory and sensory framework that having a body entails. For all the talk that AI is a mirror of human sentience or agency, it is very far from that. It is one small dimension; it is a dis-embodied intelligence.