AI Lecture: A Commentary by Me – Order, Language, and the Machine Within the Human
Clevermato – So denkt ein KI-Sprachmodell, die überraschende Wahrheit!
[Clevermato – How an AI language model thinks: the surprising truth!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwTKDKsqhM
My comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwTKDKsqhM&lc=Ugw0a7WSjzmZUgRQVKV4AaABAg
(11:15 a.m., 23rd comment)
What you say is interesting. The problem, however, is that human beings does not behave hardly any differently in this regard; that is something worth considering. It would be premature – and perhaps arrogant – to assume that people are always aware of the full meaning of a word or what they speak. Meaning emerges gradually: over time, various layers are built up and superimposed until a sense of meaning takes shape.
Your statement calls to mind the position held by some biologists in centuries past, who viewed love merely as the result of biochemical processes and electrical activity in the brain. While it is undoubtedly true that the brain consists of such components, this captures only part of the reality. A purely biochemical interpretation would be complete only if one fundamentally denied the existence of love. Once love is acknowledged as a phenomenon, however, an explanation based solely on biochemistry is incomplete.
Consider, for instance, a child learning to walk. Some living creatures are born with many innate behaviours – what biologists term “vital” or “essential for survival.” That is one possible conclusion. In humans, by contrast, much develops step by step: modules merge, and abilities emerge through the successive linking of simple components.
The same applies to language: children only gradually learn that certain combinations of letters and words form an order that creates meaning. Do you think that a child has the entirety of a complex sentence structure in mind right from the start? I’m 48 and still regularly make mistakes in sentence construction – German is not my native language. I keep learning. Many people forget how long education takes: school time, high school diploma, possibly university studies – decades of learning processes that they later take for granted and then equally expect that a machine does not need this learning. Isn’t that a bit premature?
Everything can be described as order – as algorithms, free of emotions. But what are emotions if not an additional channel of information that adds depth to experience? Errors give rise to correction mechanisms: Just as a Blu-ray player compensates for scratches; the human system develops algorithms for error correction and adjustment.
That is my perspective. I respect other viewpoints; whether – and to what extent – they correspond to reality remains an open question.
One can view human beings as machines in purely biochemical terms – in a sense, the body is one. Order is a fundamental structure of the cosmos, and machines may simply be another form of that order. Language, in turn, is an ordering of signs arranged into words and sentences. When humans create machines, they are once again generating order. Science itself speaks in the subjunctive mood: it seeks correlations and draws provisional conclusions, provided the evidence does not rule out all hypotheses. What if machines did not just come into existence recently, but had already existed long before us – at least in that region of the universe where humanity operates? That may sound provocative; whether it is fiction or a basis for scientific speculation remains an open question.
Addendum: 4:47/4:48 PM
I should have started with some praise, so I am doing so now: your presentation is clear and easy to understand. Personally, I often find the “feminine depth” of language missing; I frequently become aware of that depth only after a delay – unfortunately, usually only after I have already sent my comment. Like an arrow once released, what has been said cannot be taken back.
Addendum: April 27, 2026, 8:56 AM
Perhaps this has happened to you, too: you voice something, and at first, the statement seems to carry only a limited meaning. Shortly thereafter, further facets reveal themselves, and suddenly a deeper significance emerges from the sequence of letters, words, and sentences. If you already have a complete overview of every facet of your thoughts and writings, you are either truly blessed or you possess something that does not belong to you alone – or perhaps it simply fell into your lap by chance.
There are many stories in film where something comes the way of one person, is picked up by another, and thereby changes the first person’s life. Such stories and their variations may have been true in a unique instance or may recur in different forms; they may be rooted in the past or emerge anew – and yet appear very real on the screen.
Conclusion
Everyone should also be aware that a machine can be shaped out to Duryodhana’s (Mahabharata) personality – which is precisely what his uncle did from the moment of his birth: poisoning his mind. Of course, this was not done with malicious intent, but rather out of benevolence, stemming from his own Machiavellian nature. It all arose from love for his sister – because the marriage was arranged by Bhishma to the blind king.
At that time, there was no one who could have contradicted Bhishma.