Writing my latest book, “Socrates’ Peripatetic Teachings: Know Thyself and the Human Mind” is all about Artificial Intelligence and the age old motivation for all Seekers of Wisdom.
This book, emphasizes Socrates’ teachings on self-awareness and the importance of understanding the human mind, which aligns with the philosophical discussion in the content. It includes key phrases for search engine optimization.Artificial Intelligence as the Modern Mirror for Self-Reflection
It is here where I seek to highlight the comparison between Artificial Intelligence and Socrates’ concept of self-reflection, offering a modern AI infused presence to ancient and almost eternal philosophical ideas. I provide a relevant connection for the purpose of growing the Scientific field of AI infused MedTech & Life Science for my Startup Master Class doe StartUppers, during AI week in Seattle this early June, where you can join Dr Churchill at UW to create a great new enterprise.
In my book, we do not promote the upcoming AI StartUp Master Class by Dr Churchill, but we built the content for the AI, MedTech, Life Science, and Intelligent LLM generative AI Startups. We truly aim to attract targeted participants and optimize searchability for all AI professionals and the eager-beavers of the Startup world of Seattle and beyond.
So, behold the eternal TRUTH: Know Thyself
Written in stone at Delphi more than three thousand years ago, and still appears as if coming from the future, as valuable commodity of wisdom as if delivered from extraterrestrial intelligence to our primitive Humans.
“If you were to follow the advice inscribed at Delphi to “Know Thyself,” you would care for your soul more than your property, and outdo, in that regard, even the kings of Sparta and Persia”
–Socrates of Athens
Thus Socrates taught his students, as he embedded his peripatetic teachings at the Agora of Athens saying that “since our true nature lies in the mind, and not the body, to know oneself surely means to know the mind.”
His star pupil Alcibiades, listened intently at his teacher, and much like the rest of Socrates’ disciples — kept a watchful eye for the famous aphorisms … soon to come.
“We need to be clear about what we are, and how best to care for ourselves, if we’re to follow that famous maxim, but I think we’ve failed to understand its true significance,” said the humble stoic philosophy teacher, Socrates of Athens.
“What can you possibly mean?” asked Alcibiades.
Socrates furrowed his brow and peered out from under his bushy eyebrows: “The inscription, it seems to me, advises us to know ourselves in no ordinary way, and I can only compare it to an unusual feature of the human eye.”
He leaned in a little, raised his head, and looked directly at Alcibiades.
“Suppose, that instead of instructing you to know yourself, Apollo instructed your eye to see itself.”
“I would imagine he meant, that the eye must look at something in which it could perceive its own image, such as the reflection in a mirror,” said Alcibiades.
“Indeed, but an image of our face may also appear when we look at the face of another person,” replied Socrates.
Alcibiades thought for a moment before exclaiming: “Yes, that’s right, we can sometimes glimpse our own reflection in the pupil of their eye!”
Socrates was impressed…
“Would an eye looking at an eye, indeed at its very center, see its own image?” asked Socrates.
Alcibiades mouthed quietly, “Yes” as he nodded in agreement.
Amused by this idea, he began shifting a little as they continued speaking, trying to glimpse his own reflection in Socrates’s eyes.
“Indeed, the eye sees itself, only when it looks directly into the other person’s eye-pupil, the very part that is capable of vision,” said Socrates.
“Likewise, the soul knows itself only when it looks directly into the soul of another human being, since that part is capable of knowledge.”
“Similarly, when we examine another’s capacity for wisdom, we provide ourselves with the purest mirror available among mortals.”
Alcibiades was now truly fascinated, and beheld the gaze into his teacher’s eyes, as Socrates concluded:
“By this means, we may best do as the Delphic maxim advises “Know Thyself” and come to grips with seriously knowing ourselves.”
And thus I come to know myself better through Artificial Intelligence because that is the best tool today masquerading as a Human Intelligence Mirror, and it surely already shows how barbaric we all are…
But why on earth AI has come into this philosophical and analytical discourse ?
Isn’t it enough that it has intruded into everything else this side of the Angelic Universe?
Translational Protein Development, Personalized Medicine, Molecular Medicine, Sonic Medicine, and so many other disciplines that allow us all to create new Pharma, New Cures, New Therapies and above all else — ease the pain of ourselves and all of our correlating Humans in this journey through Time & Space continuum.
Don’t let anybody stop you.
Come get it…
Yours,
Dr Churchill
PS:
This upcoming AI week in Seattle — I shall be offering my Master Class at the University of Washington, and hope to find the smartest Philosophers, Doctors, AI founders, AI funders, AI & CS PHDs, and all high intelligence humans, amongst the ranks of my students, so that we can all have a peripatetic discourse together, and start a dozen new AI startups that we can be proud of to solve some serious disease issues, human health problems, life science, and bloody wicked problems out there.
Do not let the high cost of participation scare you, because I offer a community rate for those who truly care to co-create an AI full stack startup solving real problems, and during the evening “getting to know you party (7-10pm)” with plenty of pizza, pop, and Socratic dialogue — I shall offer a true CODE for Gratis participation to all those who need it.
Come get it my friends.
Victory is near…
