What is the algorithm for the scope of ideas that are concerning or worthy of attention? Part of this project is to decipher the algorithms of Jeet Kune Do and take them into the cyber age and beyond. What Would Bruce Lee be doing today in 2024? I think he would be doing his very last movie and it goes like this- set in year 2039 (before Bladerunner 2049). Humans are united against some sort of AI monstrosity. The AI knows most of human's moves and is ten steps ahead of them. Ryan Reynolds and Bruce Lee figured out how to "intercept" the AI algorithm because Bruce is an expert at interception. Jeet Kune Do literally means intercepting. The AI is onto this and the military, society, and Chuck Norris, have to protect Bruce's life whilst we figure out how to nullify the AI. In the 3rd Act of the movie just as the AI is enslaving the human race by turning them against each other, Ryan and Bruce help Elon Musk's AI Lab develop a counter AI that saves humanity and everyone lives happily ever after. On Mars.
THE END
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IN THE BEGINNING
I first learned Jeet Kune Do in 1980 when I was a Private in the
Army. Our Instructor Sgt. Don Lee from Seattle (no relation) said
we will learn something important the very first day. He showed us
the eye jab and how to stand properly. He said it was like
Fencing. Me and Tim thought oh wow we know something and its only
the first day.
Here is something on the first page. It's called the Geospatial Health Psychology algorithm for your Health Defense. Self Defense is only a subset. Bruce Lee lived it all as one. That's nice but we are not Bruce Lee. He said not to try to be him. (Nobody listens to that good advice)
In the September 1971 issue of Black Belt magazine Bruce Lee wrote an article called, "Liberate Yourself From Classical Karate." He describes a hypothetical martial artist and speculates on the man's goals. He says this man, "resists the temptation to "organize" some "truth" that he discovered, as this is a common tendency in man's search for security and certainty in life." After the man's death his students took "his" hypothesis, "his" postulates, "his" inclinations, methods, and turned them into law.
Impressive creeds and ceremonies were invented. Rigid philosophies and patterns formulated, until finally a institution was erected. Bruce then says, "In so doing the man's well-meaning, loyal followers not only made this knowledge a holy shrine but also a tomb in which they buried the founder's wisdom."
He said that in 1971. He passed away in 1973, not knowing that the "man" was going to be himself, that he had predicted. In the story about this man Bruce insinuates we are supposed to feel we are wrong to fall in love with a martial arts creeds, it's techniques, it's methods, it's style, etc. He wants us to be pragmatic. He's right but we are mostly not pragmatic, we are too influenced by the cultural political religous narrative, that guides societies, as if we are members of a club and live by the club rules and regulations. When this clashes with reality it gives us cognitive dissonance.
Bruce Lee didn't live long enough to see that his legacy has gone way beyond pragmatic marital arts.
He changed the world and was only just getting started. He probably wouldn't like that we don't have a problem with anything that "Bruce Lee" cooked up whether it's half ass or not. We'll take an inclination, a postulation, a lump or a smidgeon, we'll take everything he's got, for the next 50 years. And we did. He says don't do this. He tells us not to want to be him. But we do. So much for his requests.
I think it has taken us 50 years to finally catch up to Bruce Lee. It is now time to go forward. Bruce Lee 1973 is now Bruce Lee 2073, Jeet Kune Do is adapting. The definition of endangerment has changed so significantly it's a whole new battlefield. The attack surface today was not imaginable back then. You are now fighting ghosts. Physique and Kung Fu doesn't work good on ghosts. The transition we are going through today is literally like going from horse and buggy to combustion engine it's that big. This is not your grandpa's Jeet Kune Do.
In the magazine article he goes on and on about being stuck in methods, techniques, styles, boundaries, limits, fluidity, rigidity, etc. confinement, he says, "Truth Cannot Be Confined." We all know this, we all read the Tao Of Jeet Kune Do yet we refuse to leave 1973, because it's Bruce Lee. He's practically begging us to leave him behind, and forget Bruce Lee.
Jeet Kune Do contains some algorithms that haven't really been tapped for the power and potential they have. He describes combat "as is" total and includes the "is" as well as the "is not" without favorite lines or angles. That means your Smartphone and AI is not out of play.
Let us now go forth and uncover these algorithms that will take Jeet Kune Do forward another 50 years. We must decode Jeet Kune Do.
Decoding Jeet Kune Do
I'm not building I'm removing.
This page will grow smaller not bigger.
Like a block of stone being reduced into sculpture.
You need to re-visit occasionally as I chisel away the chafe.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the
unessential.
- Bruce Lee
We are going to take Jeet Kune Do into the future. To predict the future. Mandatory viewing is, "I Am Bruce Lee Documentary" its on YouTube. It's the people who know him telling it like it is. Gene LaBelle scares me. Dude is real.
We're going to ponder upon what and where Bruce Lee would be today, if he were here to say. He would be 80+ years old so his priorities would have evolved. He wanted to express his ideas in movies.
I wrote and rewrote this page so many times its not funny. I vowed to not go in the weeds, nobody likes thick metaphysical weeds. Yet every time I end up going into the weeds and it gets lengthy and makes the garden look unscientific. Bruce said he wanted things scientific. I need to go pull some weeds now.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Do you wonder if there is any difference or separation, between Bruce Lee the person and his art of Jeet Kune Do? He has always said there is no difference or separation and he lives and breathes his philosophy. Perhaps this is the reason he has talked about not giving his martial art a name? He felt the name could be a distraction from the art. For any artist, actor, musician, it is a dilemma because they don't want to be "pigeon holed" yet that's the exact way people discover you exist.
“Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.”
-Bruce Lee
In the beginning Bruce and Dan didn't know there would come to be very few people on planet earth that don't know Bruce Lee exists.
If you had only one word to describe Bruce Lee/Jeet Kune Do that word would be "intercept." There continue to be endless attempts to unravel Jeet Kune Do. I want to take a little different approach. Let's decode the algorithms. As the great Voltaire said, "if you wish to converse define your terms." He's right, so what is algorithm?
The natural world just does it and there was no need to describe it. Until humans came along. Early humans began describing and labeling everything. Soon physics was a career path. To describe physics in a step by step manner i.e. algorithm, is a made-up human social construct that enables a physics professor to explain it to the rest of us. The better the algorithm the easier it is to understand physics, or anything for that matter. Bruce Lee said, "True refinement seeks simplicity."
WHO OWNS THE FACTS
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Mr. Moynihan is right but when it comes to power to get what you want it doesn't matter. The beliefs we have which increase our confidence, whether true or not all have the same power to get us what we want when the outcome depends on our own performance. This is why “facts” can lose their power in the arena of algorithms. There are political algorithms known as "dog whistles." But they could be any kind of whistle. They call it dog whistles because it works regardless of what content the dog thinks it is. Even more to the point every dog is a little different. And a Cat is really different.
Renown Scripps scientist Dr. Eric
Topol said, "Algorithm is arguably the single most important
concept in our world." He said that because algorithm is our
window into how the world works. Algorithm is a bigger set than
mathematics, biology, or science, because it is not bound by
numbers like math is. It could be colors, it could be emotion,
it could be intuition, it could be God, it could be music. Math
could be all those things but that would require algorithm to do
it. Physics is behind everything and you could say algorithm is
the description of the glue that holds it altogether. Math and
science can not describe God but algorithm could.
The History channel showed a Biography called, "How Bruce Lee
Changed the World." It features celebrities, actors, comedians,
musicians, explaining how Bruce Lee influenced them and the
takeaway they used for their craft and career. The takeaway is
the algorithm. How could this one man inspire so many different
types of people? People of all walks of life are able to grab a
little piece of algorithm from Jeet Kune Do to use or inspire
them in whatever it is they are doing. It has inspired me to
find out how it inspired me. We are going to decode this very
process. This is like magic when you can take the essence of one
thing and apply it to something completely different. This is
why I spend so much time talking about the algorithm of things.
There are "extra" senses that humans are not in tune with. One of these we know as "magnetic fields." Animals can sense (the algorithm) and use and navigate by the earths magnetic fields yet we look at theses animals and there is no organ no orifice no appendage to do this. We have no indication how they do it. Only certain animals can do this, the other animals don't go around saying they can. Only humans do that. This is illogical human behavior. For eons you just believed what somebody else said, there was no way to know otherwise, you were lucky you could even read. You didn't know that you didn't know.
In 350 BC Aristotle invented science and critical thinking. We like to say this was a big milestone for everyone, and it was, but who's everyone? Very few people in the world saw Aristotle's webpage or knew any epistemology, psychology, anthropology or cognitive science. Reality was around but it was always optional. Most of us never knew there were options. There were no SmartPhones, no TV, radio, no internet, no social media, so how could we know.
Surely critical thinking and science arrived to us in the Enlightenment, or was it the Renaissance, or did it come in the Industrial Age? Hollywood wanted to make sure reality doesn't arrive and created the notorious "Hays Code" movie ratings. A system designed to keep reality out of the movies, no sex drugs rock n roll allowed. Even Elvis Presley is dangerous. His hips shake. Harmful to kids.
Modernity as we know it and Hollywood, arrived close to the same time. Somewhere near 1900. This changed everything. In America that is. Hollywood represented mass communication for the first time in history. Hollywood quickly realized reality doesn't sell. Quite the opposite sells extremely well. The movies revolved around escaping reality. In those days reality was not considered what we know it to be today i.e. smart facts, truths you want to seek. Back then reality was considered "ugly" it was things you don't understand that ruin your weekends. Definitely not something you would actively seek out. Similar to the 1960's when if, you cared about your Health you were a, "HealthNut" as in nutjob whacko. I think avoiding reality kind of peaked in the 1960's. By the 1960's everything looked pretty fake. Especially Kung Fu movies. All the movies did. This brought the arrival of "New Hollywood." A realism from directors like Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola. Making things seem even a little bit real was very new and exciting. Bill Burr said the French Ceinema did it right before we did.
By the early 1970's the Hays Code was dead and Bruce Lee's career was maturing and poised to ride that new wave. He brought a realism that didn't involve culture or politics and it appealed to everyone all over the world. His plan was stop teaching and working at his schools and put everything into movies. Unfortunately he passed away in 1973. We'll never know how real his realism would have been. His realistic take on sparring influenced the UFC and MMA.
Reality pretty much stayed in the movies it still wasn't in people's everyday lives yet. Walter Cronkite was all we had. The beginning of the democratization of reality began with the arrival of the internet. This brought two important things, one was the availability for everyone to see the same thing at the same time. This never happened in all our history. The second important development was network security because it required the authentication of the verification of information. By default. No hurt feelings. This didn't mean the end of fantasyland but it did mean there was now a widespread mechanism for facts, truths, and reality. It spread over the whole world when everything jumped to cell phones. In only 25 years we saw this democratization of the authentication of the verification of information. I think it happened too quickly for humans to adjust.
Parallel realities began to appear and compete. All this happened within a few decades, the schools, governments, the police, every pillar of society is having a hard time keeping up. Alternate reality was always sci-fi and entertainment. Today alternate realities have become mainstream and threaten to re-write history. This is behind all the polarization we have today. You've heard of "NIMBY" not in my backyard, this is "ORIMBY" only real if it's in my backyard. That means everything is literal, binary, and today, if I can't see it then it doesn't exist. In America you are free to believe whatever you want, as long as it doesn't sink the ship. The ship is called, "Democracy."
Having your own opinions and your own facts would be fun and games if it weren't for the arrival of artificial intelligence. Letting AI help us is a great thing in so many ways. To do this AI backward engineers us. Humans are being backward engineered. The Turing Test was supposed to tell when a computer fools a human, this is obsolete as we now know any cheap computer can fool a third of the population without much effort. This is fun in comedy, movies, music, entertainment. It's a lot fun, until it isn't. We have to be careful what we wish for. We need to intercept this part of our mind before AI does. If artificial intelligence tunes into this before we do it can spin us in a way that we won't know that we don't know. Right now we don't even know the difference between weather and climate. Simple things Aristotle told us we don't even know. Our public education system was never based on teaching critical thinking. That's why it's under attack today. The attacks on public education are code for "It needs to be my version of liberalism or my version of conservatism" as opposed to simply Critical Thinking Skills. Nobody wants those yuk. Unfortunately keeping us confused like this is good ratings, good for controlling agendas, good for certain businesses, great for trolls and military and political disinformation campaigns.
What can you do? You can intercept your Self. Before somebody or something else does.
The Turing Test is reversed, humans now have to use the Captcha test to prove they are not a computer. Human cognitive ability has grown at a snails pace for centuries and now suddenly it's growing exponentially way too fast for everyone to keep up with. AI has been unleashed like the Manhattan project. Nobody quite knows what is going to happen. I seriously doubt anybody is going to stop or even slow down AI development, that means we can't "protect" the population we have to inform and educate. We feign protecting the population from sexual education, financial slavery, deception in politics, racial history, much of history. All of that folly is not the game changer like this coming wave of artificial intelligence is going to be. All of that folly is the fuel AI is using to learn. For better or worse.
The appetite grows by what it feeds on.
– Richard Vernon
We need to learn how to hack our selves, before AI does. The race is to get to the algorithm of the verification of authentication before AI does. Because AI could take us backward, slowly erasing history, until there's there's fewer and fewer people left who remember real history. We don't have a lot of time, history is already being eroded, we're having to fight battles we already won. In the next 10 to 30 years everything is going to really be different. Possibly drastically. We do not know our Selves like we think we do. It's an illusion. AI can easily get us to, "take the bait" and end up in some rabbit hole, or worse. Computers are now hacking each other, us humans are on the sideline watching. Today we have to prove to the webpage we are human.
What about Cognitive Science? What's that?
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes with input from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science/artificial intelligence, and anthropology. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and transform information.
Some people don't want to know how
the sausage is made. I want to know because I tell my Self all
kinds of bullshit stuff, and that's fine, and it's funny, but I
want to know at least a little bit, is any of it real? This is going to be a new career skill. It's already starting to get difficult and the media companies are responsible.
The race has begun. Who will get to the algorithm first. I feel a peripheral sense, a feeling that everyone and every thing is moving toward a certain set of Gateways. Whoever controls these Gateways controls the direction (forward or backward) of humanity as we know it. What is a Gateway? It is a tangible piece of hardware and software that allows information to flow from one discrete network to another. That is a physical Gateway a piece of equipment using digital code. Easy to engineer. What if it's a different kind of network, with no physical equipment or familiar formats? We know "networks" as digital highways of computer code. We need to redefine what we consider is a Network. What if it's a analog organic network with a organic Gateway?
The organic Gateway is a whole other ball game. There is no hardware or software or digital code. The organic algorithm can be in any format, it is boundless. It's a form of social engineering using unknown incompatible formats. It is not easy to engineer. Let's try one right now here we go;
No more credit from the liquor store, eyes are all wide and my shoes is all wore. Tired and lonely, my heart is all sore. Advance romance. I can't stand it no more. You know she told me she loved me, I believed what she said. Took me for a sucker, boy, all corn-fed. Next thing I knew she had a bolt on the door. Advance romance. I can't use it no more, no, I can't use it. They took George's watch like they always do. (It was a Timex, too). No more money, boy, I shoulda knew. The way she do me, boy. She might do you, too. Advance romance, oh yeah evil I am through. Yes, i am through. Potato-head Bobby was a friend of mine. He opened three of his eyes in the food stamp line. He opened four of his eyes in the food stamp line. He opened five of his eyes in the food stamp line. He opened six of his eyes in the food stamp line. He wanna try it one time. At least one time later that night they dropped on by. Told her all they wanna do was step up and say "Hi." Half an hour later she had frenched his fry. Frenched his fry. Advance romance. Say good-bye
Having said all that, from a pragmatic strategy. Bruce Lee said I should be pragmatic. When it comes to you defending you, only you, know what to do. I need to know what I can trust. All we need to become a budding cognitive scientist is to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. A college degree that does not make, ok but this is martial arts we're talking about. There are no colored Belt ranks in Jeet Kune Do.
The whole idea of this Decoding Project is to use algorithm as a way to simplify what Bruce Lee, Alan Watts, Sam Harris and other brainiacs say so we regular folks can harness this power. I tend to use sarcasm and humor to paraphrase in depth technical subjects to make it more user friendly. If it's entertaining it's not a long slog through boring tech speak. What I get wrong is not worth worrying about economically because you can easily lookup things and go into rabbit holes on your own and confirm my gist of the matter. I hope that, I encourage it. In today's world of information overload it's critical to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff in a short amount of time. Everyone who is not doing that is getting left behind. With AI grabbing more cognitive real estate every year makes it even more important than ever.
In fact getting good at deciphering the gist of things by using verification is better known as critical thinking and it's a needed skill to understand the algorithm of interception.
Sometimes it's about the journey not necessarily the destination.
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at."
- Tao of Jeet Kune Do
ALGORITHM SPAM
Attention span gets shorter and shorter the more information that nonstop piles onto us every day. Algorithm has no philosophy it is just glue.
Not all martial arts have a philosophy, some just call its
methodology it's philosophy. You might say isn't Bruce Lee's
philosophy his algorithm? No. Yes. Maybe. Sometimes. An algorithm is
a precise set of rules or procedures for solving a problem or
completing a specific task. Philosophy is typically not precise,
it's ambiguous nature is it's strength because it can go anywhere.
Philosophy can be intuition or an an educated guess and doesn’t
necessarily provide answers. Algorithm can be vague solutions from
concrete steps. Philosophy is vague steps that sometimes offer
concrete solutions. Vague, concrete, ambiguous, things can get all
blurry.
Algorithm is only the formulae it could be precise or vague. Algorithm is not married to any form. It might be a heuristic approach, the algorithm may not be fully specified or may not guarantee correct or optimal results, especially in problem domains where there is no well-defined correct or optimal result. in another example the transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as randomized algorithms, incorporate random input. It's just a formulae, a recipe. We look for the best algorithms.
Bruce said you want a nice balance of control and natural instinct. You have to take control of You. This makes perfect sense today, in 1973 it's sounded mythical. Magical. It was, and I think it still is. That is why we have to decode Bruce Lee.
The term algorithm started out as analog thinking. Since at least 1811, the term algorithm is attested to mean a "step-by-step procedure" in English. All through the 1800's algorithm was thought of "the most effective" ways to solve math, numbers, differential calculus. Only math brainiacs used the term. Regular folks didn't know it's powerful analog status to describe EVERYTHING. Alan Turing may be the bridge to bringing the term to the general public. He was using human characteristics as descriptors of machines in metaphorical ways with terms such as "memory", "search" and "stimulus."
After the internet came along and social media was invented is when the term really became "public" and it got glued to computers as we know it today. It is time to take it back to its analog roots because in the analog world "algorithm" is ultimate and exponentially more powerful than anything digital. It's a "tool" we can all use to describe and unravel the most powerful things known, and unknown.
Alan Watts in 1967 said "Science is the art of definition" and science is the basis of thought. Today we call that algorithm. On the classroom board Alan Watts is drawing shapes with a paint brush explaining how our mind uses angles to construct things. He is referring to how our mind uses a system of "prediction errors" to create re-create things from things we already know. Our mind is constantly "predicting" what is next and it uses stuff it already knows and only brings in "new reality" when it is forced to. Sam Harris calls it a system of "prediction error." I didn't make this stuff up. It's cognitive science. It's been proven from studying Brain damage victims. Alan Watts is talking about it before it was invented! He had a habit of doing that.
He is doing what we now call data visualization. He talks about what you "see" in your minds eye, he is talking cognitive neuroscience in how your mind constructs (predicts) things based on past experience. With that, Alan Watts says we can "predict" what things are going to do next. Today we call that predictive link analysis using data visualization. If Allan Watts were here today he would be amazed that we actually can Predict the future. Big tech steals our data to predict us constantly, and without our permission! Where is Alan Watts when you need him!
Algorithm itself is an act that does not refer to anything asserted in it. Algorithm is not a fixed term. It doesn't exist. Until it does. It makes an appropriate connection for a particular mission. Then it disappears again. It has no beginning and no end until it becomes a boat to get across the river, once across it is no longer needed. It only lives as long as the river crossing is wide.
Algorithm has boundless expansion like water fills the shape of the river. Algorithm is not the cultivation of any particular segment of the river that unites into the totality of the flow but rather the totality of the flow that unites that particular segment of the river.
The algorithm of consciousness could be the simultaneous birth and death of awareness. Consciousness is the nonstop verification of authentication of information. It's possible that consciousness is the continuous search for the source of alienation. The source is not the target, it's just the easiest thing to aim at that will reveal the source.
You can't look at alienation without naming it, and naming it causes alienation -unless the names come from the source, not me, not you. The tendency is to manipulate control rather than investigate the source of instigation. It's not intuitive to see things without naming them. Discovering where the names come from is to uncover any source of alienation. Naming things cannot be defined without using names. The way to name things without using names is to not depend on names to name things. Use no limitation as limitation. Then it will all be clear. Expand your cognitive language beyond "words" you already know. Feelings that you can not describe are untouchable, they can be repressed, covered up, by excuses or alcohol or drugs, or some other behavioural thing for distraction. Once you can describe things you are halfway there. A problem well-stated is halfway solved.
"The comeback is always greater than the setback."
- Mike Sorrentino
The struggle you should have, is the struggle against having struggles.
- Chris Carter
Here is a link to the first project that got this project started:
If you had to pick one -Power or Predictability, which would you
choose? Power sounds good but it's not predictable. With
predictability you get power for free. Two for one. It's Health
Defense.
DECODING BRUCE LEE
Very few people could match the physical speed of Bruce Lee but using cognitive speed evens the playing field. Can this be a standardized methodology that anyone can use? I say it can be.
We know Bruce was all about intercepting opponents physical attacks but what about intercepting their mind? That episode of Longstreet where Li Tsung (Bruce Lee) says, "I intercepted your emotional tenseness. You see from your thought to your fist how much time was lost." We do know that neural impulses can travel 275mph and as slow as 2 mph. Certainly that arrangement must be different for everybody.
HOW MUCH TIME WAS LOST
Generally speaking, intercepting cognitive activity is related to a form of signals that travel through the air towards you and into your body as electrical physiological impulse messages traveling at various speeds on series of cable-like pathways through an organic tunnel network of human tissue. So to speak.
Can you "intercept" these signals on the path to the brain to the limbs? Neural impulses can travel at 2 miles per hour or 200+ miles per hour. But even this speed is 3 million times slower than the speed of electricity through a wire. If you stub your toe, you won't feel the pain for another two or three seconds, because pain signals generally travel only about two feet per second. It's doubtful you will ever intercept any signals, you will intercept your lack of reaction to the signals. All of this is your arrangement of your organic algorithms.
This is cognitive science Bruce is talking about. And it wasn't invented yet. The field of Cognitive Science had just started right around that time. All the great cognitive science discovery happened within the past 20 years imagine if he had all these decades to work on this.
He was a philosopher, he was researching people like Laozi, Jiddu Krishnamurti and Alan Watts to name just a few. He had a giant personal library of books to reference for looking at ways to maximize the human potential. He said this potential can be taught but not standardized because each individual has different needs. Could this be a polite way of saying everyone lives in their own custom version of reality so it's a case by case basis? Is this a polite way of saying nobody is normal? I believe there is no such thing as normal. I mean the way we bandy it about. There are very few normal people and very few mental people. Most of us are scattered throughout in-between.
Many of Jeet Kune Do’s "simplicity" techniques could be seen as forms of a compression algorithm. In the way Jeet Kune Do looked at traditional martial arts and said maybe this can be simplified at the same time made more powerful.
Bruce Lee's incredible speed power and extreme workouts is not the magic of Jeet Kune Do. The way he talks about it, the algorithms, is the magic of Jeet Kune Do. Simple things with massive implications. Look for simple ways to improve your health as an example of simple things with massive implications. Now that is magic anyone can pull off. Due to cultural socio political implications society does not teach this to the extent we should. We can't even agree with the basic "Food Pyramid."
Remember when Tim Berniers give away the internet? He invented the World Wide Web and gave it away saying, "This is for everyone." He would be the richest man on planet earth if he kept it. And we would be getting way more tech screwed than we already are. He’s still alive, and he’s not happy about the way we’re being hi-jacked by a handful of tech giants, thriving on a system of “surveillance capitalism.” This is not what he ever envisioned.
WHO OWNS YOU?
Surveillance capitalism is a business model in which your data is not regarded as being your property. The EU is doing something about it, Americans don’t seem to really care. Americans don’t see a problem with giving away your data in exchange for free beer. This is so pervasive and normalized it has given tech monopolies a version of too big to fail.
WHAT CAN WE USE?
Bruce Lee will tell you about keen observation, perception, and his sense of intuition. But that's him what about us? Are there other ways of detecting the feedback that reveals neural messages? Subtle micro facial expressions? Facial color alone can give away emotional states. Artificial intelligence could backward engineer us and find out what gives away emotional states. The fear, and rightfully so, is that AI will clue onto our organic "detection/s" before we do. Humans being left behind is not inevitable but how do we stand a chance against AI when there's millions of subtleties?
Right now Text-To-Image AI is so good the developers are afraid to release the full code to the public. What it can do is not fully predictable. This is why I say we have to intercept ourselves, before somebody or something does it for us. The TV set. How often am I being manipulated, by me!>? It's very difficult to be honest with your self if you don't know how your self communicates with your self. If you don't know you're lying then its not lies. You want to know. Some people feel it's their right to not know their own health. That's okay. Until it isn't. We need to learn about this stuff before AI does.
Just like humans require Water to survive, AI requires networks to survive. We need to drop our traditional notions of defining what a network is. Analog algorithms are infinitely more powerful than any digital ones. We are safe for now. We can’t survive in a all organic network. And AI is stuck in the mud with our patchwork matrix human thingy. For now.
Author Daniel Pinchbeck says, "I doubt obstructing AI development is possible." I would agree with him. It’s futile. One thing everyone seems to agree on is we are at a pivotal moment in history. I suggest it’s futile to guess which way things will go, or pay for a trip to Mars. In the meantime (for us regular folks) I recommend understanding the concept and power of organic algorithms since that is the danger zone and the hope zone. I know that sounds meek but let us not forget we have a secret weapon AI does not have —intuition.
Intuition is organic, it’s powers are not fully known, we all have access to it. AI uses horsepower for everything, intuition does not. We still don’t understand exactly how it works, and neither does AI. That’s why we better understand it before AI does. I’m not suggesting more or better intuition is going to save our ass, I’m suggesting the algorithm of Intuition is! Cracking it is. I hope. It’s a good idea regardless, for we need in our own personal well being in the madness coming our way. What do we use to hack the algorithm? Gotta fight fire with fire use Jeet Kune Do, decode the algorithm.
What Are We Intercepting?
We want to use interception as a way of health defense. After all, a fight is about your health defense it is above politics and emotion of the situation. Before not too long ago, 100 years back, your so called "health" wasn't a thing. There was no definition of health. If you woke up you were healthy, if you were dying you were not healthy. Pretty binary. Only 400 years ago we discovered the brain is the cause of death not the heart or the breathing.It's no wonder we never had the field of cognitive science. It is the main attraction and we never had it. Now that we do we can see it is the focal point behind everything we do. This gives us a foundation for making laws and rules about cognitive self defense and artificial intelligence. We used to think subliminal advertising was only a freak thing they used to do at Drive-In movie theaters in the 1950's. Today social media profits off our cognitive activity its become a business model. How come we don't get a cut of the royalties? Will the Brain Police come and help us? No.
OUR HEALTH IS THE CENTER OF THIS NEW WORLD
Humans have always had a 100+ year lifespan but they rarely ever used it. Until now. All these eons we never knew the difference between germs and disease until Florence Nightingale piped up. Now that we know what the center of our health is, the brain, we know that we barely know anything about it. We need a Baseline. For comparative feedback. How can there be a baseline if every person has a different baseline? Each culture has its own version of the narrative of reality. How come we can't get everyone to agree on reality? Voltaire said define your terms. Okay what is reality?
Reality is not a thing it's a Time Constraint. A moving target. Your own personal time constraint is determined by the range of your sensory boundaries. When you look at it that way it's not hard to understand why so many people appear to live in a parallel or alternate reality. In all of human history nobody could agree who owns reality. There was no common baseline. No common narrative. Just make up new rules. Every culture has their own version of the common narratives.
It behooves us to "intercept" and understand our cognitive boundaries before somebody or something else does. Before AI does. The more you know your self the more you can protect your self. And know your opponent? Sun Tzu said something to this effect. Sun Tzu never got cyber attacked or his brain hacked or his digital footprint cracked. Let's cut to the chase.
Bruce Lee said it's very hard to express yourself honestly. We always assumed the definition of lying means "not true." This is inaccurate because if your personal reality says it's true then it's not lying. Bruce was a big fan of Jiddu Krisnamurti and he talks about, "a different kind of learning." He talks about accumulative learning, it's additive. it shows up on your resume.
You can see traces of Jeet Kune Do from what Krishnamurti says. Jiddu Krishnamurti said about learning, "When the mind is merely taking on, adding, acquiring, is it learning? Or is learning something entirely different?" He continues, "I say the additive process which we now call learning is not learning at all. It is merely a cultivation of memory, which becomes mechanical , like a machine, it is not capable of learning."
We've heard Bruce Lee talk about the, "mechanical man." So what is this "different" kind of learning they speak of? Alan Watts says we are all part of the universe. That gets to what I'm saying about a time constraint. The universe is expanding as we speak. It's moving. The planet is not in the same place it was yesterday. It moves, this creates time as a metric we can use. Bruce said life is made of time, don't waste time.
Decoding Bruce Lee
Scientists know the ingredients of the universe from molecules to mountains from rules to reactions but what are the recipes that create the things we know in our mind? Interception is a algorithm from Jeet Kune Do. Life is a journey through a thick forest. You can take a path or you can just cut through the bushes. Getting on the right path is not all that hard to do, staying on it is the hard part. You can turn your path into a margin, a lane so to speak. Make it a safe space. Stay within the margin.
Algorithm says something about everything including itself. The definition of algorithm is itself an algorithm. I get the feeling JKD was going for that sense of an all inclusive dynamic. I like to call Jeet Kune Do an algorithm. It does a job then it disappears. It doesn't exist until it does.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
- Bruce Lee
This means we will execute tiny and sometimes very large algorithms every day. When we come up with something clever we can name it and claim it, as a algorithm. My favorite JKD algorithm is the one where he describes your worst enemy. He said, "Your worst enemy is the element of surprise. To defeat that enemy don't be surprised." It's timeless psychology that can go in so many directions. It's like a Hitchcock way of saying surprise is the worst thing that can happen because the attack is already over you're automatically in damage control the best you can do is, try not to be so far off it becomes impossible to adjust. Or is it a Zen like warning, advising us to practice being lucky?
How do we rehearse the Plan of having no plan. I like this algorithm because when it says do something (when there is nothing you can do) it puts the focus and your fate onto all your past training and experience. As the saying goes, "If you have to think then it's too late." If you don't provide your mind some muscle memory it will just grab any crazy thing, you're not even part of the equation.
Jeet Kune Do into the cyber age algorithm-
"There is no security. To defeat that just be better than the person next to you."
Be lost in a school of fish in plain sight. You can't do everything but you can do everything you can do like take an honest look around, your demise is coming, but for heaven sakes let’s not get it here ahead of schedule.
Some more of my own algorithms are listed on the side of these Fitness links:
THE CHRIS CARTER LIST OF ALGORITHMS AND FITNESS LINKS
Peter Gabriel Aims for Biofeedback-Powered Stage Show
This is very astute. Peter Gabriel is astute. On the subject of
algorithms taking over humans he says "perhaps we just need better
algorithms and we could do things."
Algorithms are not good or bad, they just are. "Technology doesn't want
to be good or bad," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. "It's in the hands of the
creator whether it becomes good or bad." You could say Capitalism is not
good, or bad. It's run by incentives. The incentives are good or bad.
Your life goes on with or without you, take control of your incentives.
Dance with them, rather than fight them. Peter Gabriel said that about
what he should do if algorithms try to takeover his incentives.
Peter is asked if algorithms could replace humans (musicians!). This is
a veiled question asking are you worried? He is not worried. He says it’s a
matter of better algorithms. In other words algorithm could try to
replace me as a singer or a drummer but algorithm can’t replace my
creativity. Peter is taunting Mr. algorithm!
This is the fear of Chat GPT, that it will replace secretaries, fast
food workers, drummers, etc. As a graphic artist, AI Text to Image can do
better Photoshop than I do, that means my "skill level" is no longer my
savior? My creativity still is. I’m not afraid. I can make up new graphics.. AI is telling humans
-Hey You Better Up Your Game. Jeet Kune Do tells me don’t fear it steer it.
When pain comes along don’t act on it navigate it. Peter Gabriel says,
"dance with them, rather than fight them." Bruce Lee said the exact same
thing. In his own way of course (be like water). Don't get stuck on style, the best style is the one that fits you like a
second skin, you just own it.
Peter says see algorithm as this "amazing tool coming into our
possession for extraordinary things." When he says ‘perhaps’ –
protecting our future” he’s being optimistic about all this gloomy talk
of AI enslaving us humans. The analogy would be the human race is a rock
band, if we let computers replace the band members what do we still have a band left?
Peter ends with some very dark humor, … "I hope we don’t fall into that
trap, but we can have a wonderful party on the way to jumping over the
cliff.” Maybe he’s saying if our fate is doomed we should at least have
fun going down with the ship. Fatal optimism? Monty Python told us to
always look on the bright side of life. Prince said we should party like
its 1999. Michael Jackson told us to look in the mirror.
Michael Jackson was ahead of his time. Back when he said look in the
mirror pal if you want to make the world a better place take a look at
yourself and then make a change, we all thought it was just clever pop
lyrics. Now that AI is here it is in our mirror and can influence every human institution.
The bad news is that us wee individuals are not on the Board of
Directors. The good news is us wee individuals are not on the Board of
Directors. Us wee little folks are not beholden to Shareholders. We are now the new shareholders. The world is very small now days, we
are all in this together. The robber barons can take over, if we let
them.
“Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once
across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.”
-Bruce Lee
Bruce was often guilty of speaking as Artist, Philosopher, Fighter, all
at the same time. Yes guilty as charged and that is Jeet Kune Do. This
is what separates JKD from all the others and in the beginning it was the source of
friction with traditional martial arts.
THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE
So much knowledge was known back in the time of
Aristotle and Socrates and where is it today? We have “ancient Chinese wisdom” that goes back even
further. Reasonableness has been known.
I think the reason we don't use reason is because nobody in history
has come up with a way to use "reality" without gaming it. Reality is
too painful and a little ugly on the side. America defines reality as
a land where you can dodge reality in any way you personally chose. We
haven't worked the bugs out yet. America is an experiment in cognitive
boundaries. I think Bruce Lee was exploring the map of cognitive
boundary lines where reality meets our perception. That's what is so
refreshing, he was getting real in a very grounded manner having
nothing to do with politics. People come up with so much static I
can't give it away on 7th avenue and when they run into Bruce Lee they
see he was able to walk the walk and talk the talk. Just like Mike
Tyson said, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
I use mental maps to decode Jeet Kune Do. I have a cognitive map I
created using the Geospatial tools from ESRI. Why Geospatial tools?
MAN IN THE MIRROR
It's about your opponent, which at a certain level is your own self.
Your opponent, if you will, is in front of you. If you know where he
isn't then you know where he is. This is a roundabout way of saying
that you can cut problems in half. In Jeet Kune Do this is the center
line concept. Sports players know this. If you can corral your
opponent to the left (or the right) you don't know where he is but you
know where he isn't. This cuts your problem in half. This is how you
predict the future. You don't know what it is but you can know what it
isn't. As long as you know it isn't bad then it's good. Generally
speaking.
Francis Bacon said, "Seek ye first the good things of the mind and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
When you put your Self in this position, I call it a path, it's a margin, then you get what you need and the rest will be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Geospatial tools help you find a good path and navigate the path in this cognitive
landscape. You don't have to purchase those expensive Geo tools, just
use the same terms and descriptions.
The cognitive perimeter where perception meets reality. You can only
know it by the "terms" you use with your self. Or not use. Bruce tells his student, "don't think." To not know is
one of our biggest fears we don't like the unknown but there is a
hidden power of not knowing. It's a different kind of learning Jiddu
Krishnamurti tells us. On that episode of Longstreet is that what
Bruce Lee's character Li Tsung meant when he told Longstreet, "Free
your ambitious mind"?
The field of Cognitive science is hardly 40 years old or so. You can
lookup the full definition of cognitive science, for now I'll give you
the short answer. It's "How You Talk To Your Self." This means
defining your terms makes all the difference in the world. “Honestly expressing yourself... not lying to oneself... is very
hard to do.” If you don't know you're lying then it's not lies. You
want to know.
Cognitive science is showing us when we re-learn the wheel over and
over every generation. Is our historical description of the idea of
knowledge, intelligence and wisdom all wrong? We can't help judging
the past from our current state of mind. For 300,000 years most people
didn't live past age 30. The average person did not live long. If you
only lived to be 30 or 40 why would you care about your health? Why
would you look at the world the way we do today? There was always some very old people around, this tells us we always had the capability to live long.
Human lifespan hasn't changed, it's the longevity that changed.
In the past 150 years or so
suddenly human longevity doubled and tripled. This changes everything
if you ask me. We know it's changed the military retirement system. All the retirement systems were not designed for you to live
to be 80 or 90 and get way more out of it than you put in. 60 used to
be considered old. It is not anymore. 60 is the new 70.
If you look up the definition of Reality you get two versions. One is
some variation of "all the stuff out there." That can mean just about
anything. The second one is barely any better. “The world or the state
of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or
notional idea of them.” This is telling us what idealistic and
notional is not, okay then what is it? The assumption is it's the
"normal" view. Normal used to be easy to define it never mattered that
each person sees things a little different. That "little different"
has become a lot as we know and grow our knowledge of the mind.
We don't need to go down the rabbit hole. We just want to know where
our idealistic and notional ideas end and reality begins. This gives
us an advantage to know this. I think Bruce Lee alludes to this by
getting in front of all of it. He goes in front of politics and social
constructs. This is important when someone or something is attacking
you, things don't get more real than that.
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