This question is usually answered with a job or a wish.
Fireman, Teacher, Nurse, or what someone in our family does. Truthfully we are
so young we don’t know what it means.
One parent is looking to give up her Chairmanship. Her young
son tells her he can take over. “I set up the chairs every week.” Different
meanings are lost on us.
“In general we are
least aware of what our minds do best.”
–
Professor Marvin Lee Minsky, MIT AI Lab
Professor Minsky studied
intelligence and want to develop thinking machines to act like humans. The
complexity of intelligence is our mind can learn several different ways. We
observe, smell, interact, manipulate, taste, experiment, love and experience. All at
the same time. Look at people interacting with their pets. How complicated are
the behaviors of both human and pet?
Further our brains handles health functions like breathing,
digesting and waste without much conscious thought. We pull back from hot,
avoid predators, entertain others, and navigate around by distance, direction
& landmarks in a complicated world. A Artificial Intelligence machine like
that will require building lots different skills, and integrating them all to
be like a human.
Often talents pop out and we wonder where did that come
from? Why am I the only one who knew the answer? How come no one else understood
him? Why didn’t they know what she meant? My favorite - “It was easy. Anyone
could do it.”
We sometimes get mentors who recognize our talents and start
to lead us. Often we muddle through and struggle what to do. You are far from alone. Often wonder what should be doing with
these different gifts I have.
The hell of life is we are born for greatness. But we neither know why, or what our talents
are. Finding out may take our whole life.
Happy hunting, and share what you learn.
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