AI Dumbing Down

 

Problem solving, such as writing essays or correcting a map, isn’t supposed to be easy, and of course it can be tedious. It isn’t just the production of solutions – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. 

It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An AI or LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs in us during its making.

To do so we must look inward, and as we do we are transformed. The world around us we are accepting as 'Reality' is an outward manifestation of our inner reality. And we are accepting a reality that is more and more and illusion created by those least qualified to create a noble world. That's my humble opinion. Take a critical look at those creating content. Are they what we want to be? Are they the expression of our values, our thoughts and our relationships?

Asking the critical question, 'Why do I accept this?' is one key element in regaining our sense of what it is to be truly human. Is there a need to be more than human? Why?

Rei Toei has Granddaughter

 Tilly Norwood. Non corporeal, DNA-less, purely unmanifested object. 

It's been 30 years since examining the implications of Tilly's arrival for the first time. I am not excited, surprised or otherwise ruffled by the arrival. I have a context for it. Her ancestor, or beta model, was Rei Toei. 

William Gibson's 1996 cyberpunk novel Idoru features the culmination of what we are experiencing today. Celebrity is a main theme and how humanity devours it, is repulsed by it and enjoys it's destruction. That's my opinion. Give it a read and let me know. 

The context I refer to is rooted in ancient Vedanta philosophy and modern Noetic research. 

"We project our disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination we call the world."

It is this consciousness that fascinates some. There is no widely accepted definition that I know of. 

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of a state or object, either internal to oneself or in one's external environment. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate among philosophers, scientists, and theologians.

Source: Wikipedia

Yet consciousness and the ability to project complex human thoughts, mannerisms, and affects is what makes this AI object of interest. Tilly, the actor, will be manipulated in its own digital realm to elicit responses in our consciousness. Tilly has, I imagine, a limited range of consciousness that is enabled by mechanical and digital 'senses' analogous, perhaps, to human sight, taste, touch, speech, etc. I'm fairly certain that the plan is to enhance interactivity with AI analyzed inputs and outputs to seamlessly integrate with film scenarios and flesh and blood, 'meat' actors. And human actors can see the ratios shifting rapidly!

Context. That's what I said. Otherwise the beat goes on with consciousness of the group coming to a consensus about reality in the same way for centuries more. Mostly without awareness or critical thinking. It probably will continue for most people that way anyway. 

The context I've found provides a way out, thus not to be enmeshed and suffer needlessly. Maybe suffer just enough.
But that's why we're here isn't it? Me writing you reading. Drawn by some fascination. 

New article November 2025