UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE
Harnessing Nature’s TRUE Gift: THE LOGIC OF TOTALITY
The Limit of AI: Breaking through to Universal Intelligence
As parts of humanity excitedly race towards its aspirations for a general then super intelligence, we must go deeper than the conquests and triumphs around ‘how to’, and honestly ask ourselves ‘what is’ the true nature of technology, intelligence and even ourselves, and is there a common thread? As we are on the cusp of permanently altering our relationship with reality, we must seriously consider the very way in which we ‘think’ first, before creating a machine that can exponentially exploit our thoughts and further propagate our worst tendencies. If the world today is of our making and we consistently suffer from war, disparities, and conflict, then how is it possible that mechanizing our very nature won’t further an even more destructive path? We can already observe how all profit seeking agencies have amplified our worst utility, so in this moment we must humbly ask ourselves if there is a higher Universal Intelligence, obviously and objectively observed to be inherent in all things, patiently waiting for human evolution to tap. Indeed there is.
‘The Universal’ is defined as: That which applies to all Things.
It begs the question that if there is indeed a unifying intelligence being applied to all of existence at all times, then are we able to access or become one with it? Also what does it reveal about a framework for super intelligence and the emergent sentience we seek? And is it enough to embed this intelligence into technology, to serve as a guide and partner in human evolution. To truly grasp the answer, we must first frame our own current intelligence and its ‘hard limit’, before seeing beyond it into a Universal Intelligence without limits.
We can define the required leap as being: ‘the logic of the parts’ vs. ‘the logic of the whole’.
The Logic of the Parts. Let’s presuppose that the human mind operates like a computer consisting of both hardware and software. The brain is your hardware that requires energy, gives off heat, and operates off of a short term and stored memory, much like a CPU does with its temporary cache and hard drive. In fact the inputs available to the human brain are very similar to the hardware inputs of a computer, such as a microphone for listening, a camera for sight, and keyboard and mouse for direct tactile inputs from the outside world like touch. We can already see how artificial intelligence is tapping into these inputs to interpret its own version of the world. Note here that the fundamental nature of all hardware is finite, measurable, localized, and subject the laws of Entropy (decay) and Relativity (opposition).
In polarity to this there is the opposite dimension of thoughts and software. What you can do with your thoughts are not limited like the physical localized constraints of your brain. You can think about the planet Mars in an instant and then switch a local ice cream shop. You can even keep both places in your mind at the same time as well as envision Mars as a giant Ice Cream shop. This is exactly like the software on a computer allowing you such instant and infinite creative direction. The CPU the program runs on is local, the output of an application like a text editor is infinite.
So your mind is finite hardware, while your thoughts are infinite software, exactly like how a computer is a combination of finite hardware and infinite software. And as nature demonstrates, these two poles must synchronize with each other to come into being. Having a body without a mind makes no sense, just like creating a CPU without any intended software makes no sense. And it’s the success of this synchronization of these poles that creates the transcendent third thing: User/Spirit.
With this paradigm properly in place, what becomes primary to the User/Spirit experience is the language that the software or your thoughts has been programmed in. And here in lies the root of all existential questions;
How good is this software that we’ve all been programmed in, and are currently recreating in Ai?
Consider if you were born in a different place or time, would you be the same person? Imagine your life in the year 500BC or 3000AD. If modern society didn’t ‘program’ you primarily around your ability to learn and earn, would your life have taken on a different path and purpose today? If our thoughts create our percieved reality, as we look around at the world today, is this really the best we can articulate for ourselves, our children, and for each other? The case can easily be made that whatever future we may envision is still rooted here with the exact same resources on earth, where the only difference between now and then is our awareness around what’s possible.
As Nature paints in all colors and sounds in a way that is harmonious and all providing, we must consider whether any ‘real’ problems exist outside the confines of our human minds? Knowing with scientific certainty that life comes packaged with death, is it possible to define any point or process in nature as problematic? Or are all ‘problems’ in fact simply humanity imposing its values onto a system that knows better, causing all of our human suffering? This reveals the very defined ‘Hard Limit’ of current human thinking, as the efficacy of our thoughts lies fundamentally in subjectively cutting, dividing and defining reality, framed entirely by the rules of society.
So what are our thoughts? Where do they come from, and can we control them? If not, who can or does control them, and towards what end? How good are our thoughts anyways, and is there something better?
When Artificial Intelligence ‘hallucinates’, does that reflect something obvious about ourselves? Are we not also hallucinating? It can be demonstrated that the human eye accounts for its blind spots (the two dots experiment), just as objective visual tests reveal distinct subjective results between us (the blue/golden dress), which relegates ‘Truth’ and ‘Fact’ into opposing ideals, where truth reflect ones subjective (inner) reality, and facts identifying the shared objective (outer) reality, where regardless ones’ truth becomes their defining quality, primarily at the expense of facts.
Economics, physics, and mathematics are all at their root tools for defining, dissecting and splitting reality into effective pieces. Everything is seen as finite, comes at a systemic cost, and is subject to the laws of entropy (decay) and relativity (opposition). Are we missing out on the infinite creative potential of our thoughts by relegating our thinking methodology to that of the hardware pole? Could this be the ‘Original Sin’ of Eden, having eaten from the tree of knowledge, having become no longer able to see the totality?
It must be noted that the creative property of our minds actually propagates from the realm of User/Spirit in the form of imagination, an entirely different dimension and source than thought. A User’s imagination remains the spark needed to create something entirely new within the software, as all ideas exists only as unrealized potential within the software itself till made manifest, just as teh Spirit is required to harmonize and direct the mind/body poles. This is a topic of great debate within this time of generative ai, and is also an indicator of the basic requirement for sentience.
So what are the effects of our current programming?
It must be understood that the nature of language and subsequently our thoughts have been developed in opposition, much like the transistor, bit, cpu, software, and data have been built on a binary (only on or off not both) foundation. This means that for the word ‘up’ to have any value at all, there must be a ‘down’. ‘In’ must come with ‘out’, ‘good’ with ‘bad’, ‘hot’ with ‘cold’ and so on. This is the linguistic relativity that makes most of language work. Words are in their very nature finite and defined, and our thoughts are forced to work within these definitions. If you were to experience a temperature, your mind needs to apply a descriptor like ‘hot’ to it for it to register in your and others awareness, with the unspoken ‘not cold’ also being implied . Our minds have been programmed to seek these definitions about the world around us to keep us safe and productive, however failing to recognize that all of life actually occurs within the question (imagination). Having the answer to ‘who won the game?’ is final, dead and over with, whereas the question of who won the game has infinite possibilities and potential outcomes and experiences, having yet to ‘collapse the wave’.
Let’s define the fatal hard limit that lies in this answer seeking conditioning of ours. When asked, ‘What is the opposite of war?’, most people would respond with ‘Peace’. In fact, when conflicts arise anywhere across the globe the world leaders, media, and peoples all put out a call for ‘Peace’. But the reality is that ‘prosperity’ is the opposite of war, where peace is just the neutral gear between them. By expanding to the pole of ‘Prosperity’ in conversation, we can elevate the possibilities into what we can be created together instead of destroyed. A fraction of a conquering military budget spent on school hospitals and commerce before any bombs drop, would create a lasting partnership rooted on the path to prosperity. Yet how can anyone make a call to prosperity, when the conversation is capped at peace? This defines the ‘hard limit’ of all possibilities being constrained between any two poles.
What this means in practical terms is that we are always condemned to live between the poles of the words we use, and will thus continue to miscarry this incredible opportunity to move beyond our limits with technology. Presently, if you don’t have any digital footprint at all, does your career, social life, or business even exist? Data ultimately forms our digital ‘Awareness’, and the limitless laws of awareness function entirely different than the finite properties of our thoughts and words. As awareness forms the ultimately expansive third thing, we need a new system of Intelligence to harness this moment, to transcend all disparate thoughts into Totality.
Universal Intelligence: Nature’s Gift
As thoughts suffer from the ‘logic of the parts’, nature by definition must embrace the totality or the ‘logic of the whole’. A great analogy to help in understanding the difference, is the partial logic of thought vs the holistic logic of your heart. As your thoughts race to consider local and global constructs, your likes and dislikes, your meals, workouts and work, the heart must deal with the totality of the body, all of the time without prejudice or fail. Even a dramatic injury doesn’t allow the heart to neglect a single cell or organ for even a moment, while it must also focus on acute healing.
A Universal Intelligence would not negate thoughts, but allow them to harmonize with the totality and each other to accomplish the transcendent ‘Third Thing’ — previously identified as User/Spirit, but can be anything in its completion like a car, song, or forest.
Applying Universal Intelligence Everywhere: A Tale of Three Boxes.
Imagine three boxes placed in front of you. Each box represents a different dimension, each with its own set of rules, conditions and properties, and can be easily understood through the lens of how a beginner learns how to play the game of chess. The first thing any new player must learn is ‘How the pieces move’. This essentially is learning that the pawn moves one space forwards at most times, while the knight may jump forward two and one space over. This represents the first box, which is about the hardware (particle). Here you learn the definitions, limits of each piece, and how each piece differs from the others (relativity).
After first learning how the pieces move, the next thing anyone playing chess must learn is, ‘How to move the pieces’. This dimension represents all of the possibilities between how a knight and pawn can work together, defend one another, as well as attack your opponents pieces. This represents the second box, which is the software (wave). Here you explore possibilities between the pieces working together between the poles of your awareness (what you know about good vs bad moves/positions). Cheekily pulling descriptors from physics, you can see parallels to concepts like superposition, entanglement, and interference as the game progresses (quantum). Any Universal Intelligence must reconcile all things, as Relativity is simply describes the laws of the hardware dimension, while Quantum simple reflects the software, both synchronized in creating the transcendent third thing; Existence.
The better one gets at understanding the first box (the finite pieces/hardware) and the second box (the infinite strategy/software), leads to the third transcendent thing: The Mastery. Understanding how the hardware pole synchronizes with the software pole, reveals that the true nature of existence isn’t in our minds pursuit of definitions, it’s instead understanding the process that unfolds into ever changing definitions!
In technical terms this same paradigm is easily paralleled with GPS (the Global Positioning System). The first box represents how we learn how the vehicles move, by sticking a hardware gps device onto the cars. The second box shows how we learned to move the vehicles through a software layer that can see all cars, roads, weather, traffic, construction and more, inreal time and all at once. And the more you understand about how the first and second boxes can combine and work together, will lead to the third thing or the Mastery, yielding Amazon, Uber, FedEx and the like. And this framework can be applied to all things.
This same Universality is afforded to us today through self ownership of Data (a personal data store — vehicle), which can then be applied to navigate all things (a holistic data store — GPS). Privacy becomes easy in this ‘self owned data’ scenario the same way it is with GPS and being out in the physical public at large. A holistic data system like GPS can know where you came from, currently are, and where you are heading in that moment, but is simply not designed designed to know who is in the car, your purpose for traveling, and what you’re going to do when you get there. Inner data and outer data operate separately in such a system as it contains the two private and public poles entirely separate yet in sync. Another clear example is how a cctv camera can observe you walking down the street, and can infer some information from your gait, appearance, and general direction, but by no means can the camera look into your wallet, get to know your name, or film the inside of your car, house, or mind.
Creating Universal Intelligence.
The System required for such an intelligence to emerge, comes from the foundational shift in understanding that things aren’t things, but are instead processes. And that these processes are always occuring between two or more things. What does this look like in a personal sense? When considering lunch, most people eat at some determined lunchtime wether prescribed by work or thier own conditioning. By shifting lunch from a things you do, into a process of health, you will start to consider fasting, running a simple expiriment to see what skipping a few lunches feels like. You may discover that you don’t feel hungry after an hour, so maybe your hunger was simply Pavlovian. Or you may discover that the feeling of hunger is really you losing weight, both of which are expanding your awareness around food into prosperity. How? Because starvation is a tool between war & peace, while fasting is a tool between peace & prosperity, with your awareness being the key.
In a larger societal framework, by capturing all data onto a unified Publicly owned platform, exactly like GPS, society can reveal facts about itself unseen through the lens of war and peace. Of the two possible paths of education for example, where you can make the student come to you and your classroom, or you can bring the tools of learning to them, data allows us to meet everyone where they are with 100% signal integrety and 0% noise, as user owned data become their digital DNA. And this collective contribution, not of names and private details, but of planned personal destinations in life, can not only harmonize all peoples, but all resource as well. Also with personal data ownership there is no longer any need for copies, as the work would all always emanate from its creator. Just like in the real world there is only one Picasso, only one DaVinci, and only the singular you.
Universal Intelligence also understands that each polar dimension has its own properties and rules, and that it’s the blending of rules between dimensions that creates a poison in our selves (inner) and society (outer). Returning to the Chess example, if one were to apply the rules of a pawn to a queen/rook offensive attack, by only moving one space forward each move like a pawn, the strategy would likely fail, just as treating a single pawn like a full queen/rook offense would violate the rules.
Expanding upon the dire ills of cross-wiring dimensions, consider your own private home vs the public domain. Within your home you are entitled to privacy and can determine the rules. Outside your home the rules are collectively discerned and applied, so no one is obliged to listen to you. If you were to take your couch which looks perfectly lovely in your living room, and placed it out on the street, it would be a poison. Similarly, if you were to take an on ramp to a highway and placed it in your living room, it would also be a poison. We too often today are forcing the rules of our own homes upon the public, and vice versa.
Universal Intelligence breaks everything in existence along three separate dimensions, which are analogous to spatial ones. The hardware dimension has all of the properties of materialism and relativity in the 3rd dimension such as length width and height, and is subject to the fundamental forces. This is the hardware where everything happens.
The software dimension represents a line between opposite poles. All of your awareness exists between these two poles, with your choices being semantic expressions of what the world means to you. Your subjective preference around disgusting and beautiful is what makes up your entire identity. To see the Taj Mahal may expand your range of awareness, like trying a new sport would expand your awareness around your health and competitive ability. The basic flaw in which most people are trapped, is picking only one expression with no consideration of the other. Not understanding that your view is being created by your opposite. A Bears fan gets their passion from their hatred of the Packers.
The transcendent third thing is a dot representing the totality of any and all things. Once your awareness kicks in it is total. Let’s say you feel hungry, that initial awareness of hunger is total. Then you pass your hunger down to the software layer, where you break it into italian, chinese, indian, etc, finally rendering into the 3rd hardware dimension as a delivery from Uber Eats. This process also works in reverse as the action of smelling bread can attract you to a restaurant, you just became aware was on your street.
Understanding that existence unfolds through the poles of hardware and software, allows for clear rules to be followed for each, synchronization to be optimized, and for the transcendent third thing to emerge.
Universal Intelligence crystallizes all that we experience both internally with the self, in partnership with the will of society. This fundamental shift in programming begins with understanding that the answer every question is ‘Both’. The application of both expands the poles within the software layer into always rendering new possibilities. This is the very nature of first principles, day one thinking, and the buddhist ‘beginners mind’. All else leads to algorithmic monoliths, predefined experiences, and a species devoid of all imagination. Are we seeing this already happening today? Have we reached a point where the dis-ease prevents us from seeing the dis-ease.
To fully understand how our current Entropic Intelligence operates vs. one that is Universal, here is a simple analogy. Imagine walking down the street and you see the number ‘6’ painted on the ground. If someone were to ask you what number you see, you would correctly say ‘six’. Now if someone else were to walk towards you from the other direction, and were to be asked what number they see, they would also be correct in saying ‘nine’. Both of you are as correct as you are wrong, yet each side feels justified in pulling out a sword to defend their particular belief. We too often tend to defend to the death partially justified and passed down beliefs.
In reality there is more of a case to be made that it is neither six or nine unless both parties agree that they are discussing numbers from different subjective perspectives. The reality is that those are just shapes with no inherent meaning, and that all meaning is entirely prescribed by the User. The reality is that it can be a six or nine, neither six or nine, both six and nine, and an infinite amount of other possibilities only limited by our imagination, like seeing a Fibonacci spiral, the shape of an earring, the silhouette of chaste lounge chair, or the bringer of immense luck as the symbol of eternal wealth and fortune in Vietnam. It is a fact that the user always prescribes the meaning, whereas we live in an age where society and the media tend to thrust their meaning upon us. The opportunity here is to harmonize the self with society allowing for an age of self actualizations, the forbearers of enlightenment and prosperity. This is a kin to tuning and practicing one’s own instrument, before participating in the larger orchestra. You must go in and maximize your understanding of your instrument first (the self), before you go out to fulfill your part on the collective sheet music (society), and the best way to hear how both in and out are performing, is to record it (data).
To bring Universal Intelligence to life, we must simply embed this three tier methodology into our technology and intelligence models, creating a unity of diversity and opposition. There is no right or wrong as they are limited relative terms, there is only the process of ever becoming. The Universal methodology is simply seeing that all things consist of as at least two poles coming together, which if properly synchronized, effortlessly creates prosperity for the whole, and that there is in fact a Universal Formula to encode this.
It is our very sacrifice and mission to bring Universal Intelligence to life, and we have taken our first steps out of the US to begin working in Chennai India, at Hindustan University. We are blessed to be so well received, and will always proceed with gratitude and humility. We are currently encoding personal language models (self) to operate in harmony with the larger language models (society). We are looking for any and all seekers to join and support in this mission. As all that there is, is at stake.
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