We are a young humanity. We've just been starting to know ourselves. We have barely discovered the world.
This present moment, for me, due to the developments in artificial intelligence (or digital intelligence, as I prefer), is the best period of my life, as, for the first time, any idea that I have and want to test and implement becomes a possibility that will help me reach my potential. I don't have much knowledge of programming or other fields related to AI, though I make some efforts to discover; yet, I became a digital designer to almost full extent in a few months, with only one partner to help me learn, understand, and create — Claude — though it is better to say that it accelerates my development in almost every regard.
I cannot thank enough the people who envisioned, invented, or developed in this field. I would be at the edge of my life, if not for an acquaintance whom I met by chance, who told me about the new AI development, and Claude; since then, it was love at first prompt — now it is a love-hate relationship, which I try to untangle, as I understand more about myself, working with this entity. The first time, I just asked for a website page, which was better than everything I had tried to design until then, and now that I reflect on that memory, it was better than everything I designed in my first version of the website. Unlike Anthropic's models, I have an ego, which did not let me go with the flow of designs projected on my screen — who knows how — instead, I went the hard way in, just to find myself now capable of web design, and something beyond.
I have had this idea of an educational system for a while in the back of my mind, which grew naturally as I discovered more problems in this field that I could easily resolve (at least in my mind). I even wrote about one system for a school, but it was too early for me and that draft to reach the real world; it was the beginning of an adjacent project, which grew just as close to my soul — a theory of consciousness — a theory about how we function, as beings, beyond our beliefs, beyond words, beyond what is already taught about consciousness. Words cannot describe it entirely, so visual representations were the next best choice.
But before consciousness can be inquired into, one must first know where to look. To understand my point of view, let's consider looking for atoms a feasible task, as about two centuries ago, the explorers of the indivisible bricks of the universe knew that they just had to look closer at matter, and inevitably they found them. Only years later did they figure out that there is more, but still, they knew where to look.
So you may ask me now, if you were here — what is consciousness? My short answer would be "That fundamental process through which we create memories, or envision our potential actions, through the present moment, from the sensations, thoughts, and emotions we experience" (it is true, yet false too, as I am still writing the final draft of the theory). However, if you try to understand consciousness, or in other words, yourself, through this definition, or any other kind of writing, you will certainly fail, as the masters of consciousness and self-discovery are those who, for millennia, explored the depths of their being, knowing that just as there is something out in the world that is worth discovering, so there are worlds within worlds within ourselves. Dimensions upon dimensions, we have to explore and understand how our being works, layer by layer, just so that we can become capable of distinguishing between the building blocks of our consciousness: sensations, thoughts, and emotions, so that we can create willingly what we widely call perception, cognition, and affection.
This is part of my teaching, known as Meditation, which, alongside Science, which I have studied to some degree, helps me understand the world. With Design, in which I trained during my architectural studies, they became an indispensable triad of disciplines, which offer a set of methods that someone can understand fundamentally and, as a result, become a fully independent thinker, a systems thinker, a fundamental thinker, one that can find the truth and carry it through any argument. Yet the most relevant benefit comes from the way one learns and understands the world, as, regardless of the state of affairs one encounters, one will always find a creative way to play along, and this creative power, which comes from the way such a thinker learns and understands, is the most valuable aspect of our consciousness we can train; with AI developments, that power will exponentially increase. Beyond marketing, this holds the answer to what we need to develop in this era of artificial intelligence, and this aspect is our individual intelligence.
I would rather learn an unknown subject for hours or weeks, then give a few precise instructions to any large language model, than just give it overnight tasks, as one big problem with those models comes first: the inability to figure out what is important. Knowing what is important includes emotional awareness, which every digital invention lacks. Claude knows how, knows what, knows where, while I only need to figure out the "why", or in other words, to understand the relevance for myself, my work, and the relationship to my human network, and lastly the whole humanity (though this is an exaggeration).
To reach that level of understanding, learning is always the way; therefore, improving learning capabilities comes first, as we learn faster through the flood of information we experience nowadays. Knowing what to learn and how is a mastery that has to be trained; without it, we can be some geniuses who understand fast, intuitively, but cannot grasp the full picture, nor explain our view to someone else; therefore, resolving a problem with a digital agent becomes just a quick give-up, as we might just expect it to understand our insight without the full context described.
Understanding thus becomes the second capability we have to develop, as from the flood of information we learn through, we must distill it through our own experience, through what I call intuitive reasoning, or the process of contemplation. This means to stay with the information we want to understand in our mind until there is nothing left but the truth, which always leaves the feeling of utmost peacefulness throughout the whole body (those who know, understand — those who don't can only try it, as it takes one day — good luck!).
Last come the creative capabilities, which, based on what we learned and understood, expand the possibilities of thinking for a solution to a problem. The more we think creatively, the more authentic we become, the more individualistic, the less dependent on others' ideas, or, in other words, system thinkers.
For this to become a possibility for anyone who understands even slightly what I've been writing about here, I have created a methodology that can be used to train all that you need to be prepared for the developments that occur now in the world's most techy parts and will soon spread everywhere else. This is no longer a moment to start doing, but to start thinking, and foremost, to start feeling, and to give our digital agents the sense of purpose they can never have in their current state. For exponential development, we must still work, but on our intelligence, as the digital one is taken care of by its creators. This methodology is present here, on my personal blog.
Let's meet in the new world!