The Holistic Approach to the World is Not Overthinking.
Simona Zdanavi?iūt?
Anthropologist | Mediator | Viz B Founder ???? An agent for partnership evoking.
So many people usually think that this perspective is not normal and not adaptable to our daily life. Especially in business, we demand to be always specific to things we are talking about. We hear expressions such as "keep it simple", "do not think too much", "this is too abstract approach - keep it direct and state the essence". All these expressions are well used in the context of when you need to keep your focus on one line, but not for the extension of a subject matter or meaning we are creating with our own actions.
For example, AI technology is being incorporated into our lives and taking over our decision-making “calculation processes” so that we will be able to be “better, faster, and more efficient”. However, this new technology also causes the fear of human control ethics in all aspects of life. We fear for losing our jobs, we fear for smarter beings than us, we fear for losing control of our free will to choose.
Why? Where this fear is coming from?
The key ingredient to this answer is knowledge, which is being uploaded by us (or by surroundings) in our memory as to how we upload data in AI algorithm code. One difference though is - AI is learning meanings of this knowledge as well, while humans tend to take the meaning as common sense and predict it by default.
We are vastly pushed to focus only on the competing process with a reward system as the end result of this collective thinking. We tend to learn and gain knowledge in order just to beat an opponent. We skip learning the meanings of that knowledge, which has cultural aspects for us as collectives. We assume that we already understand the core with the help of our logical derivation. While in the AI approach, data alone is just “a toolbox”, but connections between meanings – are triggers to act based on calculated direction. Therefore, the cultural significance of societies becomes a key data component for AI to understand the human world.
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Coming back to the overthinking term. This holistic approach unites all the data and finds the communication by meanings in between - is not OVERTHINKING! It is how humans can be artificially intelligent on earth!
To sum up:
Do not align yourself with your mind as AI does. Stay a human and the fear for your future will be in your hands to change that!