"Responsible caregiver", I love that. It reminds me of a theme from "The Little Prince".
"You are not special yet. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. My fox was like you. He was like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique."
Everything in the world can be unique, and given a name, b…
"Responsible caregiver", I love that. It reminds me of a theme from "The Little Prince".
"You are not special yet. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. My fox was like you. He was like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique."
Everything in the world can be unique, and given a name, but doing so is difficult without a purpose. Very high level, but personally, I believe that's also behind cognitive impairment in major depression. If nothing has a purpose, nothing has a meaning. Naming, taming, selecting one thing over another becomes impossible because there is no reason to do so. Perception, attention, memory retrieval: all atrophy because they need to be applied because of something, not just to something.
Nice! That quote from 'The Little Prince' (and the entire book in fact) is 'fire', lol.
You hit the nail on the head, about 'purpose', including how lack of it could stem from depression. The reverse might be true too - inability to lead a meaningful/purposeful life might lead to boredom, withdrawal, anger and a bunch of other feelings (eg in societies with high unemployment, lack of opportunities, corrupt governments that don't care about society's progress etc).
Scientific exploration is also driven by a 'need' to find meaning in nature, to understand it, benefit from its phenomena etc. The search for 'meaning' at a deeper level can occur even in the most dire circumstances, eg as documented in Viktor Frankl's amazing work [eg. described in https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/viktor-frankl/].
Now when we compare all these aspects about being 'human', with something like an LLM that does dot products, with its practitioners claiming parity... Lol.
"Responsible caregiver", I love that. It reminds me of a theme from "The Little Prince".
"You are not special yet. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. My fox was like you. He was like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique."
Everything in the world can be unique, and given a name, but doing so is difficult without a purpose. Very high level, but personally, I believe that's also behind cognitive impairment in major depression. If nothing has a purpose, nothing has a meaning. Naming, taming, selecting one thing over another becomes impossible because there is no reason to do so. Perception, attention, memory retrieval: all atrophy because they need to be applied because of something, not just to something.
Nice! That quote from 'The Little Prince' (and the entire book in fact) is 'fire', lol.
You hit the nail on the head, about 'purpose', including how lack of it could stem from depression. The reverse might be true too - inability to lead a meaningful/purposeful life might lead to boredom, withdrawal, anger and a bunch of other feelings (eg in societies with high unemployment, lack of opportunities, corrupt governments that don't care about society's progress etc).
Scientific exploration is also driven by a 'need' to find meaning in nature, to understand it, benefit from its phenomena etc. The search for 'meaning' at a deeper level can occur even in the most dire circumstances, eg as documented in Viktor Frankl's amazing work [eg. described in https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/viktor-frankl/].
Now when we compare all these aspects about being 'human', with something like an LLM that does dot products, with its practitioners claiming parity... Lol.