Myth #3

Revision

Thousands of myths live in our minds as stories. There is no system of classification that we know of for them. There is not a Dewey Decimal system, in other words. These myths we have are not neatly divided into categorie, some labeled "true" and some labeled "false." Just call then myths, then. There is no check box, in front of each myth, so that each myth is labeled T or F. They are all piled up somewhere. Inside of us but we do not know what the classification system is or where they are. They are within us, somatically. Or maybe in the mind? Somehow?

Whenever we want to we can call on them. We use the information without having information on how it is stored. But contrast this to a computer system, and you see that, there, someone knows exactly how to make microchips and knows exactly how to store all the information packaged in "bytes." But the collection of myths is not like that. No, not at all. They are just piled up. Inside us, 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 this is stated: "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 body and mind. We possess no knowledge of how it piles up. Artificial intelligence is inferior, and even beyond the fact that it is inferior as a kind of intelligence the A. I. version of "intelligence" or whatever it is requires enormous hard drive space and uses lots of electricity -- I guess it must, right? So it seems to me that our natural mind can exist without all those extras -- it doesn't need any of that. ~ any more 'n' I need a N. Y. Times reporter following me around all day, taking notes.

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We say "natural." It just "is." We live within the "environment." Within the world. We have myths and stories. It is healthy for children to go to school. That’s where we hear the stories. I heard stories at school in the 1960s when I was a kid and this gives me 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 jumped over the moon. Who was it, again, that threatened to "blow the house down"? A wolf, I think. That, too, is available to us. It is there. You don’t know when you might need that -- it is there!