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20 Ways to Get An Apple to Listening to the Music of Mozart
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20 Ways to Get An Apple to Listening to the Music of Mozart
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Dear Reader,
The conceptual artist duo Ilya & Emilia Kabakov once built an enormous table. There are twenty seats and plates around the table.
In the middle of it sits a single apple, placed in such a way that it’s impossible to reach from any side of the table.
20 Ways to Get An Apple to Listening to the Music of Mozart
In front of each seat is a card that shows the perspective from which each person would reach for that apple.
A scientifically minded person calculates the distance between him and the apple.
A theatrically inspired person pretends to have a heart attack, dragging the tablecloth so the apple moves closer to him.
Each person thinks of a way, convinced his perspective is THE way.
The Apple could represent many things, but I read it as the “objective” truth, the reality many try to grasp through theory, yet can never quite pin down with full certainty.
One of the most popular mental models to explain how we grasp the truth is the Blind Men and the Elephant metaphor.
It implies that each of us is like one of the blind men. Each of us holds a subjective perspective, a piece of the truth, but not the full truth.
By aggregating different people’s perspectives, we move closer to the truth and are more likely to reach it.
AI is humanity’s greatest attempt at aggregating perspectives.
Anthropic’s CEO puts it nicely: “Every AI cluster will have the brainpower of 50 million Nobel Prize Winners. It’s like having a country of geniuses in a data centre."
Much of Silicon Valley’s mythology now positions AI as the nearest thing we have to an all-knowing “God”: the machine that knows every perspective across space and time and can therefore tell us what is true.
AI is the new Apple, the symbol of knowledge.
The one to consult for the answer, the strategy, the missing piece.
The one we ask before we ask ourselves.
There is a hidden limitation in the metaphor. It teaches us to collect more perspectives instead of investigating the blindness.
The assumption baked into the Blind Men and the Elephant is that the man stays blind. He cannot regain his vision or take off his blindfold to see what the truth actually is.
It assumes that he needs all the other people’s perspectives to help him understand better the true nature of reality.
Sages across centuries and cultures did not arrive at the Truth by collecting other people’s opinions.
They arrived there by turning their awareness inward.
They became quiet enough to notice the difference between noise and knowing.
In that silence, they saw that the truth they had been reaching for was never outside them.
They understood that they did not need to reach for the Apple.
They are the Apple.
We can be like them.
We can choose to take off the blindfold.
We can choose to listen to our inner truth, to our soul, to our intuition, to our dreams, to our somatic intelligence, to the whispers from the unconscious.
We can choose to listen to the wisdom within.
I’m not against AI. But AI is a double-edged sword, and how we use it matters.
I’m against an AI that quietly trains us to outsource our truths.
An AI that trains us to ask outward before we listen inward.
An AI that impresses us while slowly dulling our critical thinking faculties.
I’ve designed an AI that does the opposite.
An AI-powered app that does not try to become your God.
An AI-powered app that does not pretend to know your truth better than you do.
It helps guide us to listen to the wisdom within.
This is my first attempt at it. It’s not perfect yet, but give it a try.
I write about the part of your mind you weren't taught to use.
Your brain processes 11 million bits per second. You're aware of 50. The other 10,999,950 bits contain your intuition, your genius, and probably the answer to that thing you've been stuck on for months. I write about how to access it so you can heal, break the patterns therapy couldn't crack, and upgrading your consciousness before AI makes your conscious mind obsolete. 4,450 creative entrepreneurs subscribe. After you subscribe, check for confirmation email (Check spam) and down the rabbit hole we go 🐇