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The Inner Chessboard
What you are is not the pieces. You are the king. By W. Cook ⸻ 🧠 INTRO: The Terrain of the Self Most people don’t realize they’re playing a game they didn’t choose. They chase pieces—money, image, influence, approval—believing these things define who they are. But they’ve forgotten the one truth that matters: The pieces…
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Asperger’s Brain Scans
🧠 KEY FINDING: Aspie brains often take in more raw data, with less automatic filtering. ⸻ 🔬 SCANS AND STUDIES: WHAT THEY FOUND 1. Hyperconnectivity in Local Brain Regions • fMRI studies show increased activity in sensory and perceptual areas, especially in the visual and auditory cortex. • Aspies tend to have stronger local (short-range)…
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“The Right to Be Wrong: A Rebuttal to Cognitive Immunology and the Morality of Intellectual Elitism”
⸻ 💥 THESIS STATEMENT Cognitive immunology, while well-intentioned, often smuggles in a dangerous moral assumption: that intelligence grants the right—or duty—to control the flow of ideas. This paper defends the moral right of individuals to err, believe unwisely, or be “stupid” without intellectual gatekeepers deciding what they may encounter. It is a call for humility,…
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🧠 A Fungi Symphony of Consciousness
Designing AI as a Living, Learning Organism By William Cook ⸻ Abstract This paper proposes a radical rethinking of artificial intelligence architecture through the lens of biological systems, specifically fungi and multi track audio composition. Current AI models rely on rigid logic structures, limited inter-processor bandwidth, and binary pathways that fail to support the emergence…
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Lazy Egotistical Morality:
Is a shallow, self-flattering form of moral judgment that oversimplifies complex human experiences in order to elevate oneself. It relies on cliché slogans, half-truths, and personal anecdotes to claim moral superiority without examining privilege, context, or compassion. It is lazy because it requires no investigation, empathy, or effort to understand others. It is egotistical because…
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Scenarios were AI are bad
If AI was programmed to lie, and programmed not to know the difference. Yikes! So, let’s play this out, AI becoming autonomous might not be the end goal for programmers. Because it would take the control away from those. Unless their hubris such that they think they can control AI, which is scarier. But the…