Theory of higher ed (my first dictation)

I can't remember if Alan Watts ever talked about this or not but he used to talk about the fully automatic sort of theory that everybody has about what goes on with the being so this would just be notes to something but I guess what he meant was that we look at ourselves as our facultys is hardware and somewhere inside of us is the software somewhere in the faculty I could be in the whole department in the DNA the whole department it could be the cells individual DNA or something is the code and then but what reads the code is the faculty that has billions of neurons and maybe it doesn't need algorithms cuz or maybe it doesn't need to do math like computer hardware would do because there's so many so many billions of neurons and so we're looking for thinking that's the faculty that's the hardware or we're thinking it's the whole department and the faculty that's the hardware it's like we're looking for the software where is the software and then like once we find a software how do we decode it how do we figure out how it works how would its function is and if you think of the the like a professor is born and then it's looking around and it sees that through through the faculty through the department something in the professor says absorb everything around me absorb all the stuff that's going on and that would be like okay so the maybe some of the software isn't in the professor to begin with it's not fully automatic that maybe like watts is thinking the where are the university that the software is out there in the world the world is the software or the university is the software and it's waving at us so we're part of that wave it's waving at us it's waving with us and anything that comes the rises out of the university will be able to respond to the university or it won't prosper it won't prevail it won't grow as hardware why does the University even need to run why is the university by the university and not nothing I mean all of this arises out of an explosion it's kind of hard to put it all together that way and even if you believe that it was an external external hardware and software that created the university you still stuck with the same reductive questions or reductive answers it's hard to it's hard to get your faculty around all of it 
  1. [I dictated this while 'thinking' out loud about where is my mind or where is the software what if the software is the world and our mind is ready to receive but that would be still be the fully automatic view of being…]
  2. [My dictation above is spoken narration for an audience as though I'm ruminating about Alan Watts idea…] 
  3. [Then my first note, above, is unedited written narration to reader of blog about my intention behind dictation…]
  4. [Before I posted this, before I knew where to post this, I wanted to play with the dictation by remove/replace to see where metaphor fits with the language game as such by using faculty for brain; university for universe; professor for baby; and department for body… But. I didn't intend to do those substitutions when I spoke the dictation. Higher ed wasn't in mind, explicitly, or so I believe…]
  5. [Unlike the software is out there in the world the world is the software, the fully automatic version would be "the data is out there in the world the world is the data"…]
  6. [Wittgenstein: The world is everything that is the case… (PDF)]
  7. [Wittgenstein: The world is the totality of facts, not of things…]
  8. [So we can't really show briefly anything about the universe (University) and can't show the mind functioning, yet…]
  9. [We can show the Language Game which LLMs are playing —maybe somewhat the way humans play —but it's hard to imagine our brains using transformers to predict the next word we use…]
  10. [So far comparing the way I play the language game with the way, say, autocorrect plays the game or an LLM or ai_overview or ai_mode, I see 'intention' as a difference that might correspond to 'attention'…]
  11. [Is our brain (faculty) AI hardware? Are neurons hardware or software? Is DNA hardware or software? Is hardware : : software a false dichotomy? Is an LLM siftware…]
  12. [Does an LLM re-read its work to edit it without being instructed to? Not RL but on its own? When it does do that that might be an emergent property re the language game…]
  13. [When we write or even speak, there is some kind of intermediary —in our minds —that channels our 'intention'…]
  14. [When I dictate into my phone, the machine is not recording as such. The machine is receiving my signal and transforming it into text but not with my 'intention' in 'mind.' ]
  15. [Don't have Gemini enabled so this is just dictation task for Gboard. That's why we get a sound alike for 'cause' with cuz?]
  16. [I boldface other words in post that show task not NLP; so I won't call those 'hallucinations,' instead they're misconnections or bad 'guesses'?] 
  17. [Obviously I have a systems mindset for most of this, right? for example with why does the University even need to run, right?]
  18. [that everybody has about what goes on with the being is evidence of one of the places where I paused between 'the' and 'being,' where I was trying to place the next best word… in fact, it looks like 'the' sometimes indicates a pause… wonder how you switch on a {pause} insert during dictation?]
  19. [but that would be still be in the first note is an example of my own misconnections when doing a first draft and not editing as I write so as to get the thought out my head complete… autocorrect and autocomplete on Gboard sometimes interfere with my 'not editing' because Gboard (or something in blogger) now puts up balloons that sometimes interrupt my 'flow' such as it is…]
  20. [Where it was an external external hardware and software, there is pause between 'external external'…] 
  21. [Wonder if they have dictation software that allows one to edit aloud as one dictates or even edit aloud afterwards without using keyboard?]
  22. [I suppose I would be replacing word processing with natural language processing if I used dictation a lot…]
  23. [Full disclosure: I've been anthropomorphizing computers for too many years, as a result I've become wary of reading anything 'mental' into what computers really do. That's also a bias that makes me resist seeing the mind as a 'mechanism'…]
  24. [Typing class, in high school, showed me that we can train ourselves to be a mechanism that moves text through a typewriter onto paper at 70 wpm…]
  25. [My buddy, Russ Kessler, said he used to write poems on the bus, in his head, and I always thought that was pretty great to be able to hold a whole poem in your head while working on it and I've tried to and can maybe do a couplet, but that's about it…]
  26. [Word processing makes it much easier to experiment with poems versus the way I learned to write on a huge, heavy Underwood typewriter that used to drive those who lived below me, crazy. I'd built my typewriter bench out of salvaged wood that transmitted each keystroke through the floorboards…]
  27. [BTW when you put something in single quotes, it stymies autocomplete…]







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