John Krakauer in a recent Learning Salon conversation focused on the huge gap between participatory learning and propositional learning. It occurred to me that propositional learning is a kind of hypnosis!
Coincidentally, today's currents events are a consequence of hypnosis. @scottadamssays was the first to notice Trump's apparent use of hypnosis methods. fortune.com/2020/09/27/don…
Hypnosis can be scientifically described as 'believed-in imagination'. asch.net/portals/0/jour…
We are prone to 'believed-in imagination' as a consequence of the increasing ambiguity of this world. Society's complexity continues to accelerate many people's understanding of reality is compensated for with erroneous and easier to grasp alternative realities.
To address @blamlab observation, that he himself says that he can't be the only one going mad, is that propositional language (i.e. declarative) is a kind of hypnosis. The kind of belief that is constructed out of a grounding on this world but imagined without proper rigor.
In other words, @blamlab may have been the only one in the conversation that may have not been under collective hypnosis!
When we examine GPT-3, we realize that for many it appears near human in its capability. This is because it is us and our imaginations that derives meaning from its auto-generated text. GPT-3 does not have the imagination to find meaning in text by grounding to this world.
Humans do understand language and interestingly enough, it is related to hypnosis. That is a believed-in imagination of this world.
Indeed curious that the article above concludes that the opposite of hypnosis is ... empathy.
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