Embodied cognition: Intelligence resides within bodies living in the real world
Cognitive Ecology: The Human
One of the biggest learnings of the twenty-first century will be that intelligence can only be generated by living beings.
Breakthroughs don’t come from connecting zeroes and ones.
They come from connecting neurons.
Human intelligence is embodied.
It is a function of biology, of living in and interacting with the physical world.
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Having access to knowledge on an external server does not equal being intelligent.
Having taste comes from storing and processing at least part of that knowledge in the brain.
Our organic chips are still the future.
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Human intelligence is native to human beings.
Human intelligence is embodied, an expression of being alive.
It was born out of the communion of our bodies with the physical world.
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Human intelligence is not a language model.
Human intelligence is not a spatial orientation model.
Human intelligence is living in the real world with a body operated by nature.
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A machine will never know what it means to be human, no matter how much human knowledge it stores.
Explore the notebook of meditations here: Intro to Cognitive Ecology.
Claudia Befu
There Is Hope: My debut novel is out as an eBook
In every carbon cycle, death is the engine of life.
It is the year 2550. After four centuries of climate collapse, the fate of Europe’s last forest rests on a fractured continent. In the segregated north, the Cooperatives control all natural resources, claiming to restore Earth’s ecosystem. Their founders, former data moguls, believe only in their own survival. In the scorching south, the Dust Road—an underground trade route—is ruled by Dust Pirates. Some fear them, others believe they are Earth’s last hope.
Nova Novikov arrives on the Iberian coast to witness an annual human sacrifice and bring her daughter’s ashes to the ancient wooden shrine. But when a young girl is chosen for the ritual, Nova makes a decision that will ripple across centuries.
Told as a mosaic of preserved memories curated in the year 3660, THERE IS HOPE is a climate sci-fi novel about ecological reckoning, sacrifice, and the fragile persistence of hope at the end of the world.
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