Everything in the world collapsed at once

Published 15.01.2024 | By Йосиф

Everything in the world collapsed at once! – Chernigovskaya about distrust of information and a confused person

“We found ourselves in a completely different world. It is fluid, transparent, unstable, ultra-fast, hybrid. Everything in him collapsed at once. The autonomous life of the digital world is in full swing: the Internet of things, self-organization of networks. Digital reality is already a sign of selection into society. If you imagine a country that cannot afford to enter the digital world, we can assume that it does not exist at all. She’s not a player. People can live there for themselves, knit baskets, but they are not participants in the common cause,” notes Chernigovskaya.

“Another interesting feature is the growing distrust of information. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Nowadays the attitude towards information is the same as it used to be towards gossip: “Well, you never know, who said what?” Why should I believe?’ But the trick is that this attitude is now turned towards the real sources of information,” she says. It turns out that people have not yet learned to navigate the growing flow of information and prefer not to believe anything.

According to a neurolinguist, digital reality gives birth to a “new species” of man. “I call it ‘homo confusion’ or ‘confused man’. This “homo confusion” hasn’t even realized where he is yet. I have not yet realized what danger we have already found ourselves in. But we cannot delay the decision. Because this is our life,” she says.

Instead, completely opposite processes are taking place in society. “There is such a thing as delayed life syndrome. People live as if they were in the middle of a draft. Moreover, this is how children are raised: for now, do this and that, and then, when you start to live… But he began to live at the moment when the father’s and mother’s cells connected. This is not a draft. You can’t keep a person for 20 years and then have him start something,” notes Chernigovskaya.

A civilization of idleness is coming, for which we, in general, are also not ready. “What are all those people going to do who are going to be replaced by digital systems? When they tell me: “there is more room for creativity,” it makes me smile sarcasticly. Do you really think that countless thousands, in fact, millions of people, in the time freed from hard work, will begin to write madrigals and play the lute? Are you serious? The exact opposite will happen. And we cannot pretend that this is not the case,” she emphasized.

“This is what I’m getting at. No matter how we talk about whether it is good or bad, what happens to us is already happening. We have already entered this world, and there is no turning back. There is no need to flirt here. You need to understand how to live in this world. I would put the question firmly. Do we even plan to continue to live on this planet, or are we giving up all positions? Because if we hand them over to the digital world, then there is nothing to talk about. You can go have coffee. If we have any plans for our own lives, then we need to think about how to live here,” she believes.

According to Chernigovskaya, we are who we are, along with all the achievements and failures of our civilization, thanks to our brain. “People live not only in a world of chairs, microphones and oranges, but also in worlds that they themselves have invented. We have the ability to operate with signs: human language, mathematics, music. We truly have a very complex neural network – a quadrillion connections. If we actually start counting them, we will have to write a ten and 85 zeros after it. Our language doesn’t even have a word to name this number. That’s not just more stars than there are in the universe. This is more than elementary particles in the Universe. That is, we must be aware of what is in our skull,” she notes.

Experts in the digital world say that the brain is a computer, a set of algorithms that chases zeros and ones for itself. And that sooner or later they will be able to recreate his device.

“But is the brain only algorithms? Now we know for sure that no. And if the brain is a computer, then at least more than one type. Some part of the brain, maybe algorithms, and this mechanical process really takes place there. But the other part is the analog stuff. Let’s not talk about poets and artists now. But even Einstein said: “Intuition is a sacred gift, and reason is a humble servant.” He directly writes: “Even if a conclusion, meaning a scientific conclusion, looks like the result of logical work, this is only the end of this work. The main part of it was by no means through recounts,” notes Chernigovskaya.

But the main thing to understand is that there is no object that contains information. There is always an object and someone who reads it all. “If we have an ancient papyrus lying in front of us, and there is no person who knows how to read it, then this is not information at all. It’s just a physical object. What I read from there depends on what kind of education I have, what my plans are, and why I’m reading it.

What am I getting at? We cannot take the position that people are not important. People are important because they are the ones who organize information. The information itself is hanging out there somewhere, we are neither cold nor hot from it,” she says.

How humans and computers will divide the world is not yet clear. There are generally a lot of unknowns in these matters. “For example, what is a stupid person? Can we say that the brain of an absolute fool is still the most perfect brain in the Universe? The question sounds playful, but it is actually a very serious question. If there are still quadrillions of connections there, then can we even say which brain is smart and which is stupid? In this case, what kind of artificial intelligence are we creating? Smart? What does it mean? All intelligence tests are mainly focused on counting: the smart one is the one who counts quickly. Forgive my indiscretion, but I have to say: I think it’s very bad, but somehow it doesn’t seem to me that I’m a complete fool. Therefore, you need to share these things. We know: you can be a person with very low intelligence, but with absolute memory. This is a medical fact.

Is brilliant artificial intelligence possible? And what does it mean? If we manage to create something like this, will we even know that he is a genius? Do we find out that he is a person? Do we have a way for this?

Will artificial intelligence feel pain, suffer, empathize, or will it imitate all this? After all, in the digital world there is no pain and no death, and this radically changes the whole picture. Computers operate in dimensions in which living things do not live – in nanometers and nanoseconds. And these are the systems that will make decisions. And don’t indulge yourself with the illusion that the finger on the button will still be human. This is all talk in favor of the poor. Ultimately, everything will depend on what information he receives,” she said.

And at the same time, it is now obvious that it is impossible to prepare in the old way for the new world. “This is a very difficult question. If a one-and-a-half-year-old child can say “Okay, Google,” and the system will give him everything he wants, why should he come to a class where an ill-prepared teacher is reading a textbook to him?

Obviously, the system must change. We must develop the ability to live in the digital world without losing our humanity. After all, in the end, everything depends on whether you managed to build relationships with your family, children, colleagues and society as a whole. They must teach how to verify information, resist stress, cultivate the ability to change, and teach them to constantly learn. If we are not pigs, we cannot set our children up like this without preparing them for what awaits them,” says Chernigovskaya. Therefore, the education of the future is the education of understanding, not memorization.

“Last year I was invited to a session called “New Educational Architecture”. I thought architecture was something metaphorical. But it turned out that it is not only metaphorical, but physical. The Finns, for example, are massively rebuilding school buildings. They are colored, there are no standard audiences – they all change shape. Children study first in one room, then in the other, sometimes lying down, sometimes running. They are taught by one teacher, then another. Conditions change all the time. This is a very important thing. This means that they are ready for change,” says the expert.

“The last person I would like to hire is an excellent student who can count well. I have a computer for this. He will count everything himself. I need some crazy person who does everything wrong, bothers everyone, says some nonsense. He will turn out to be some kind of Niels Bohr. More precisely, he is already Niels Bohr,” she says.

How to train your brain? “Like any muscle, it must work hard. If we lie down on the sofa and lie there for six months, we will not be able to get up. If the brain reads idiotic magazines, communicates with fools, listens to light, meaningless music and watches stupid movies, then there is nothing to complain about. My answer is: the brain has to work hard. Hard is the key word. It must be difficult for the brain. A book that may be easy for some, but difficult for you. A movie you don’t understand. This means you will think, read criticism. Or a performance where it is not clear what the director wanted to say. In this case, the brain will be busy with work. No need to look for tricks that improve your brain. There is none of them. These tricks are life itself,” Chernigovskaya emphasized.

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