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1) What is something you’ve created or helped create that you’re particularly proud of? (guide: 50-200 words)

"An Allegory: The Solipsistic Self as the Hamiltonian of a Noninteracting Fermion" https://www.math4wisdom.com/files/AnAllegory.pdf is the paper I submitted for the 2025 AGI Society conference. I build a bridge between metaphysics, philosophy, theology, psychology, consciousness studies, on the one side, and mathematics and physics, on the other side. I describe human experience as the interplay of three minds (three levels of awareness: answering, questioning, investigating) acting on eight mental states (divisions of everything into k perspectives, with k from 0 to 7). Full-fledged consciousness, by which we are fully cognizant, deliberate, willful, is the investigatory mindset, which balances what we know (as given by roughly one hundred billion neurons) with what we don't know (as given by perhaps a hundred thousand concepts). I explain how these three minds accord with three quantum symmetries whereby what is definite relates what is accessible (known) and what is inaccessible (unknown), yielding ten different manifestations of selfhood, which we cycle through with twofold complex and eightfold real Bott periodicity. These three minds can further be understood in terms of Active Inference, and thus enactive, predictive and cybernetic approaches to neuroscience, AI, robotics, biology and sociology.

2) What do you think are the most crucial challenges in the AI for Human Reasoning space? Why? (guide: 50-200 words)

We humans are typically living on auto-pilot, going through motions and prattling in clichés. We have trouble standing up to systems and are vulnerable to their domination. We are seduced by our own BS, by which we mindlessly connect the dots, just as we are fascinated by chat programs which likewise hallucinate. We are also trapped by our detached logics, seldom investigating whether they actually apply. We rarely let go of all of our prejudices and preconceptions, but that is what we need to do in order to truly be deliberate, free and confident to choose, at any moment, whether to live intuitively by what we know or rationally in terms of what we don't. We should study the limits of our imagination and think in terms of the abstract frameworks which link together what we know and what we do not know. Since 1982, I have been documenting these frameworks. I want to work with others to develop this language of wisdom, Wondrous Wisdom, for a science of human experience and a culture of investigation.

3) What might you be interested in working on during this fellowship? (guide: 50-200 words)

In 2024, I set up Theory Translator https://www.theorytranslator.com to present illustrative examples that I collect with my colleagues. So far we present 264 examples of the three minds. I want to develop AI software that collects examples of the three minds and other frameworks that it discovers on the internet. With AI we can communicate these concepts using the terminology of thinkers from different cultures, worldviews and disciplines. We can reach out to these thinkers to work together to develop a language of wisdom as I have been documenting with Wondrous Wisdom https://www.math4wisdom.com/wiki/Exposition/Vocabulary We can also nurture a culture of investigation as we are doing with Econet https://www.e-c-o.net I want to research Bott periodicity further with John Harland in Carlsbad, California and reach out to the authors I cite in my paper. I want to study Active Inference and Artificial Intelligence with Daniel Friedman of the Active Inference Institute in Crescent City, California, and reach out to thinkers in consciousness studies. I want to learn from you how AI can facilitate our econet's economy and ecology. AI can help people formulate their deepest values in life, investigatory questions and relationships with truth, and then map that all out.

4) Additional information

I authored our econet action plan https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/EconetActionPlan and a draft proposal "Active Inference for Bioregion Representation" https://www.e-c-o.net/wiki/Econet/ActiveInferenceForBioregionRepresentation These express some of my aspirations for econet as a culture of investigation by which we care for ourselves, our society and our environment. As citizen scientists, we share our scientific activities and work together to figure out the truth. As trained scientists, we mentor citizen scientists for a rigorous science of human experience.