Artificial networks are a new type of code that write themselves. In 2015, Google-backed startup DeepMind Technologies trained a network to play the game Breakout for Atari by having it play the way we do. AI and our brain learn in a similar way. theselfdrivingyou.com/how-artificial…

Nature has been producing living products with networks for 635-540 million years until landing on our homosapien model. Genes construct all of us from the same blueprint, making a brain with some hardwired patterns, while the rest wires by experience. theselfdrivingyou.com/human-networks/

Our brain is an impersonal learning network that uses plasticity to form circuits that become the automatic thoughts, behaviors, habits, skills, and actions that drive us. Our impartial brain does not ask questions; it only makes connections. If we think or do something enough,

The brain is an impartial learning network that takes 10,000 hours of tuning through deliberate practice to reach mastery. Deliberate practice is using attention the same way we do when first learning a skill. Only attention tunes skills, whereas autopilot uses them and does not

The brain does not ask questions; it is an impersonal network that makes connections based on what we think and do the most. If we deliberately practice a skill for 10,000 hours, the brain will tune to mastery, regardless of who we are. Mastery is not reserved for people born

Mentally practicing a motor event triggers neurons to fire in a similar fashion to when we physically do it. The book The Leading Brain discusses a study by Dr. Denis O’Keefe in which a group that mentally rehearsed lifting weights saw a 22% increase in muscle strength compared

Our genes can be thought of as 22 thousand knobs and switches that come preset in position establishing our traits. From conception, the environment enters acting as the hands that turn the knobs and move the switches, expressing those traits. Some, like physical traits, are

Inspired by human nature, self-driving cars start with a learning network, a goal, and a way to measure success against it. From there, they take in information as they drive, bumping into the world, connecting a model of understanding through experience. Classification of

To be human is to be the driver of a Level 4 High-Automation Vehicle. The Self-driving vehicle is the primary driver, providing the automatic first response to all we encounter. We are the secondary driver, acting as the supervisor who can follow its suggestions or take the wheel

As humans, we are the conscious drivers at the wheel of a self-driving vehicle. All self-driving functions occurring outside driver awareness are the nonconscious operations that automatically keep us running and provide the first response to all we encounter. We are the

Every decision we make comes from two individual systems, which collectively produce and manage cognition, emotion, and behavior. In the human Level 4 high-automation vehicle, System 1 is the nonconscious self-driving system, and System 2 is the conscious driver. System 1:

Like a Level 4 self-driving car, our human vehicle's brain comes equipped with: Goals: ✅ Survive ✅ Procreate Point System: Feelings ✅ A high pain score informs us what to avoid. ✅ A high pleasure score tells us what to approach. Wiring templates: Nature installs behavioral

A level 4 self-driving vehicle relies on input sensors to take in information and output mechanisms that respond based on what it processes. The human vehicle works the same way; sensory data from eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin sensors flows into the brain, which processes

Our brain has a core of inner structures wrapped around a sheet of neural tissue called the cortex, which forms an external layer of cells responsible for everything from perception to planning. The lateral outermost shell of the cortex acts as our driver circuitry, while its

Our fastest and most powerful self-driving circuits are survival circuits, wired to keep us alive and procreate. The amygdala plays a central role, scanning our environment 12-100 times per second outside of driver awareness for anything related to defense, food, and sex. When

The amygdala uses two levels of processing to respond to anything related to survival. Low Road: Thalamus → Amygdala ✅A first pass at incoming sensory information, providing relative size, speed, or intensity of a stimulus before higher brain regions can process what is

From the moment we are born, we have self-driving, intuitive circuits that wire what we think and do most, forming the automatic behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that drive us. These include: ✅ Checking our phone when it beeps. ✅ Holding the door open for someone. ✅ Biting

In the absence of cues and when the driver is not focused on externals, such as when showering, falling asleep, or walking, our self-driving system defaults to mind-wandering mode. Whenever we are at rest, our self-driving system activates default mode circuitry distributed