Collected Myths

Thousands to choose from

Inside our minds, there are thousands of myths. They live as stories. There is no system of classification for them. There is not a Dewey Decimal system in other words. These myths we hold inside of our consciousness are not labeled as some "true" myths and some "false" myths. There is no check box, with each myth labeled T or F. They are all piled up somewhere inside of us but we do not know what the classification system is for these myths or where they are. They are within us, somatically. Or maybe in the mind somehow?

And we can call on them whenever we want. We use the information without knowing how it is stored. Contrast this to a computer system, in which someone knows exactly how to make the microchips that store all the information on "bytes." The collection of myths is not like that. They are just piled up inside somehow.

We have no information on the system used that stores this information -- the myths we have. The collected myths have no limit, no parameters. Contrast this with A. I. A. I. includes the system that "trains" the A. I. Here is one website: "an AI model is given a set of training data..." [https://www.telusinternational.com/insights/ai-data/article/how-to-train-ai]

With the case of "natural" intelligence we do not have that knowledge. The myth material just piles up, somehow, within the mind. We possess no knowledge of how it piles up. Artificial intelligence is so inferior. Yet the A. I. version of "intelligence" requires enormous hard drive space and uses lots of electricity -- I guess so. Our natural mind, it seems to me, can exist without needing any of that.

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We say "natural." It just "is." We live within the "environment," within the world. We have many myths and stories. It is healthy to go to school and hear the stories. I heard many stories at school in the 1960s when I was a kid. We can absorb huge amounts of information.

Each person is aware, potentially, of thousands of cultural myths and stories. One day we might need to reference the cow that somehow jumped over the moon. Who "blew the house down"? A wolf, I think so. That, too, is available to us. I don't know why we would need that -- but it is there.