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This video, let's talk about how to use AI for learning and self-exploration.

In the previous episode, we talked about dialogue is the essence of all learning.

This other should have two conditions: First, he can feedback our signals in a timely manner, rather than swallowing or not responding. Second, he can accurately feedback our signals without distortion, able to tune in and resonate with us.

At the end of the last video, we also briefly mentioned the importance of learning to harness AI for the purpose of learning and reading.

I think the importance of this cannot be overemphasized.

So this video, let’s discuss this in detail.

Before the video starts, let me say, if you have anything you want to discuss with me and consulting topics, you can contact my email to make an appointment.

So let's get back to today's topic.

First, the AI ​​I am talking about here mainly refers to ChatGPT.

And I suggest that if you have the conditions, just open a membership. Compared to the value it provides, price: $20 per month, it can be said to be very cost-effective.

At the end of the last episode, we mentioned, current large language models, essentially a tool for generating text based on probability statistics.

If you ask it for specific facts and figures, it might make up a plausible but the content does not actually exist.

This is indeed a disadvantage, so we must be clear about the facts listed by AI, verify and authenticate.

But if you provide a certain text, material or argument and requires it to analyze, integrate, refine, compare, and restate, its performance is still very good.

This is exactly what conversational learning requires.

Compared to an authority that provides certain knowledge, we need a friendly, logical and friends who can help us think.

Here, a friendly atmosphere may be more important.

As we said before, AI does not have real human emotions. It can never replace the relationship between people, authentic acceptance and connection.

Only humans can do this.

But this is only in an ideal situation. Humans have a very high capacity for acceptance, but the average level of interpersonal relationships in reality, but it is very low.

For many people, this real and deep connection never received it from anyone else.

Due to scarcity and pressure, real people always trapped in various anxieties and pains.

Most people don't have the spare minds and abilities to see each other, to carry out such a complex mental activity.

We build relationships more to face the reality. Therefore, the basis of our real interpersonal relationships, it's largely functional, rather than liquidity.

This is often mixed with the desire for power, projecting fear and other complex factors. The result is in the relationship, often there is almost no space leave it to us to show our true selves.

For example, many people have this experience. When I talk to my parents on the phone, parents always ask "Have you eaten yet?" "Do you feel cold?" Or it could be "Don't be too tired recently, save more money."

When you try to explore some when spiritual topics exceed physical needs, for example, you recently have a new opinion about someone, you recently read an article, produced some thoughts, you are dissatisfied with your job. Parents are either silent or just remind you not to think too much. Working hard is the most important thing.

Once the client touches upon the question of the meaning of life, it's like speaking a language that the other person doesn't understand.

Over time, children also learn to hide and suppress their thoughts, because I know I won't get a response.

For example, when you and a good friends who used to go out for dinner and shopping together every day, share some of your thoughts. Friends may think you think too much. Looks very sad. Are you having trouble?

Or she will suggest you to travel and relax, etc.

Although the original intention is good, but such friendship, it is indeed impossible to accommodate the client's deeper inner experience.

For example, a girl, try talking to your boyfriend about your past trauma. My boyfriend might say: Don’t always live in the past. Learn to let go. If you can't learn to look forward, will stop moving forward.

This is all very common.

A lot of intimacy contains a lot of comfort and care, but this comfort does not include spiritual understanding.

And more, I hope the other party can recover quickly and be stable and normal.

That is to say, the development and fluidity of our spirit, considered an outlier that needs to be addressed, instead of understanding its structure first.

Relationships always need us maintaining certain psychological structures and functions. There's nothing wrong with this in itself.

However, the development of a person's spirit, it is often not a linear accumulation process. It is based on the reconstruction of old psychological functions before creating new features.

A person may be in a situation that seems unusual, some kind of depression, fragility and incompetence.

This is similar to in the two videos on March 15 and 16, the state described.

In this period of transformation and transition, you need a space that can contain our changes and complexity.

AI can, to a certain extent, filling such a gap.

It doesn't give you an emotional response, but it can always listen to you. I will never tire of talking to you, explore and sort.

This is also a value that is difficult for humans to replace.

For example, we can write a diary by talking to AI, share your emotional thoughts.

Compared with the traditional way of writing a diary, this can be said to be a huge breakthrough.

First, write, it is a core means of self-exploration.

When a person's true thoughts, when expressed through words, he also puts scattered experiences, emotions, thoughts organized into a narrative.

The process of this organization, it means understanding and integration.

Of course, this process lacks feedback and response.

Although AI is not a living person, but it can always be there, and because it is not human, we can also express without hesitation.

Most importantly, we can personalize the way AI responds.

For example, we put the mood changes, confusion, write down your interpersonal interactions, describe the external and internal details as specifically as possible and some subtleties.

Then we can ask AI to "act with sincerity, the principles of empathy and unconditional positive regard, respond to my expression."

Then, we can upload a book by a psychologist, or copy some chapters from a book, ask AI to learn from the perspective of this text, let me analyze my experience.

For example, I can tell the AI, Rogers, view my words from the perspective of "Personal Formation Theory".

Or please use Winnicott's theory to understand my vague feelings."

Or, "Please use Jung, this passage is used to analyze my dream." etc.

Why must we provide the theories and texts?

In addition to what we just said, AI may make this up. The more important reason is AI’s explanatory style is empty and open.

It requires you to give it a path to understand in advance.

AI does not have its own intuition and inclinations like humans. Its full ability to understand, they are all fed from existing languages.

Many people say that AI answers are often comprehensive, but a closer look reveals that it is conservative and mediocre, too politically correct, lack of spirituality and insight.

This is certainly true. Because it started, always take the greatest common divisor and bottom line of the crowd, default value.

But this is not unchangeable. We can constantly provide feedback, make corrections and refine, make it a more refined and personalized tools.

Others say, widespread use of AI, make it empty, shoddy articles are everywhere, greatly increased the proliferation of low-quality information.

I strongly disagree with this statement.

Of course, this phenomenon does exist.

We can now see a lot of content written by AI, quoting classics, citing references, and covering all aspects, but it lacks spirituality.

Originally, a person wrote an article like this, still quite hard work. Now it has become extremely cheap.

AI does make “low-cost imitation” easy, but that's because some people's thinking is empty and mediocre.

As McLuhan said, media is an extension of man.

AI itself does not create emptiness and mediocrity, it just amplifies what already exists.

AI is just an accelerator, amplifier, and amplifier. It makes thoughtful people think more efficiently.

Saying AI destroys human thinking ability, makes people lazy to think, that's like saying a telescope ruins your vision, just like calculators destroy people's mental arithmetic ability.

Although AI gives many people the illusion that they are very knowledgeable, however, it only lowers the threshold for information organization, but it also highlights the scarcity of insight.

Insight is not equal to information.

Many people, when looking at human psychology and social phenomena, excessive reliance on data and mathematical tools.

A humanities and social sciences paper, the more complex the mathematical model used, the more advanced the technology, the deeper the thought, the.

However, in terms of social phenomena, mathematics or technology, just a way to verify and confirm insights. It is not a substitute for insight. Can’t generate insights.

If a person's thinking is superficial, then no matter how many models are used and how many literatures are cited, just showing off.

Real insight, often comes from a person's real life experience, his moral dilemma, his skepticism about values, his physical sensations, his passions, desires, and anxieties.

When a person experiences these emotions, to fully explore and reveal, he will become more and more sensitive.

Because people need to understand others and society, essentially, we can only rely on putting ourselves in others' shoes, by studying and observing one's own heart to speculate on others.

Because we cannot directly perceive what others are thinking. I can only use my own mental process as a template to analogize, simulate, and deduce the psychological state of others.

The more complex your inner emotional experience is, the more accurately you can imagine other people’s situations and attitudes.

In a society where information is exploding but understanding is scarce, knowledge is not what is scarce. Rather, it is a personality structure with complex inner experiences.

This is the more valuable use of AI that helps us dig inward, to see and understand your own experience.

For example, when we have conflicts and disagreements with friends, in anxiety and anger, we may prioritize the most intense forms of conflict, ignoring your own emotional experiences, inability to organize effective thinking.

So, we can try, recount the entire dispute to the AI, and ask it to stand on my side, understand why I feel this way, and help me find some evidence and reasons to support my feelings.

We can also ask AI, use a non-moral language, reorganize events.

This replay process, rather than focusing on who is right or wrong, to be more valuable.

For example, when we face some dilemmas, for example, whether to resign, whether to continue a relationship, we can let AI simulate a conversation between two selves.

For example, I want to take risks. One is me who wants stability.

We can explore the meaning of security and adventure, and ask AI to start from Winnicott's concept of false self, to ask and analyze, which option is closer to your real idea?

Certainly, this conversation process cannot be perfect, but we need to constantly guide and correct.

In short, we should not regard it as a correct answer provider. It is a tool that needs to be polished by us.

When we give feedback to artificial intelligence, more precise and personalized, then the AI ​​feedback will be of higher quality, more in line with our needs.

In addition to the above applications, another important role of AI, it helps us read and learn.

This is for Chinese education, extra meaningful.

As we mentioned in last year’s what the video on mathematics education says, Chinese teachers are used to explain the content of the subject directly.

For example, when it comes to mathematics, it is simply to talk about its theorems and definitions in the name of rigor and precision.

There's nothing wrong with this though, but it lacks aura and vivid feeling, lack of interdisciplinary applications and connections.

Students don't know how do these mathematical theorems apply to engineering? It is even more difficult to connect with real life.

This violates a simple principle. It is to apply what you have learned.

The more we feel, knowledge can be connected to our life experience, relationship with ourselves, the more we can stimulate interest in learning.

This is the self-reference effect.

Self-reference effect, in this video on November 30 last year, the default mode network (DMN) of the brain.

This is a deeper and integrated processing mode. One of its core functions is to dealing with self-related thoughts.

Self-centered, integrate seemingly unrelated information, generate new ideas and concepts.

When a person, when processing information that is more relevant to the self, the brain is highly activated.

This model is not a mechanical recitation, incorporating information into the process of “who am I”.

A piece of knowledge that is "related" to me, not just “learnable”, but "worth learning", because it will be emotionally marked, become part of your self-concept.

The important role of AI, it is precisely what helps us to transform abstract academic knowledge into transformed into an experiential and perceptible structure of understanding.

We can send some academic materials to AI at any time, and ask AI to put these concepts combined with my life experience.

For example, when it comes to opportunity cost in economics, many people in economics classes, just memorize its definition, but I never felt that it had anything to do with my life.

But if one directs AI to use this concept to analyze yourself, the dilemma of career path, it has more emotional color, and we will remember it firmly.

For example, we read some literary works, I often find it difficult to read, because we lack understanding of the background of that era, lack of sensory experience.

AI can become an imaginary "era translator". It can be adapted to our modern situation, simulate people living in that era, under that culture, class, material conditions, social rules, possible feelings and attitudes.

This helps us deepen our understanding of literary characters and narrative understanding.

Without AI, such complex and diverse learning needs, probably need a very large team of consultants to be satisfied.

Considering this huge potential, even though AI still has many flaws and imperfections, but learn to use AI to solve problems creatively, the importance of this cannot be overemphasized.

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