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The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
“If the machine can take over everything man can do, and do it still better than us, then what is a human being, what are you?”
When Krishnamurti (1895–1986) asked this question, he was an 85-year-old sage who’d spent nearly 60 years probing the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and the need for a psychological revolution.
When Krishnamurti (1895–1986) asked this question, he was an 85-year-old sage who’d spent nearly 60 years probing the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and the need for a psychological revolution.
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Krishnamurti didn’t see intelligent machines as some strange, rival species ready to replace us. To him, machines were just an extension of the human mind — a brain built in our own image, with human and artificial thought as mirror reflections. When you think about it, AI developers aren’t pulling ideas out of thin air; they’re crafting AI based o
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Krishnamurti, ever the visionary, laid out a series of bold predictions — almost prophetic warnings — about a future where humans might drift into obsolescence. With his characteristic intensity, he sketched a vivid scene of a not-so-distant world — “in about ten, fifteen years” — where AI would eclipse human intelligence entirely, reducing us to a
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Jiddu Krishnamurti foi um filósofo indiano, pensador não convencional, que no começo da década de 1980 foi um dos primeiros a fazer previsões e projeções a respeito da inteligência artificial.
For Krishnamurti, mind and mechanical thought are worlds apart. And when he talks about exercising the brain, he’s not referring to crossword puzzles or sudoku. He’s pointing to a human mind with an immense, even infinite capacity — one that remains unknown as long as it’s bogged down by knowledge, specialization, and material concerns.
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
humans talking like machines
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
With LLMs all but conversing with their userbase, the variations between human and “talking like machines” is thinner by the day. I think we also see this across movies and modern books and social media. Maybe it started with the listicle format of content being all the rage, or content experts saying there is a specific way to set up content on the page for maximum human engagement.
Resist the lure of the entertained mind and keep your mental gears turning by diving into the “vast recesses of one’s being.”
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
It’s not that Krishnamurti saw the mind as anything close to a computer. While a computational functionalist might argue that building a mind is as simple as building a machine, Krishnamurti believed our minds are so much more. But he worried we were selling ourselves short, letting our minds get stuck in mechanical routines like memory and knowled... See more
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us? How does it change us when we realize that even today’s mind-mimicking “weak AI” can already take over cognitive tasks and abilities we once thought were exclusively human?
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Instead of asking whether machines will ever become conscious, we might ask whether humans can become conscious enough to outgrow the “artificial intelligence” both inside them and in the machines around them.