Otak dan pikiran kita, tidak akan selalu bisa mengikuti apa yang kita mau, harapkan, atau bahkan yang kita butuhkan, pikiran akan selalu off, dari paper yang dipublish sudah lumayan lama ini, saya menjadi tahu ada beberapa pertanyaan yang suka saya renungi, dan di sini setidaknya ada jawabannya.

Hitungannya saya masuk kategori otak yang typical, artinya tidak ada ada keadaan secara klinis berbeda neuro pathway-nya, masih tidak bisa dengan baik mengatur isi kepala, selalu ada input yang masuk dari luar, kalo tidak ada input, pikiran sendiri yang membuat hal itu, dari mulai kunci rumah apa sudah dikunci, ada barang ga di mobil yang ketinggalan, hari ini berapa derajat ya, kayaknya anime yang lagi diikuti keluar episode baru deh, dan lain-lain.

Meski kita sedang beraktivitas, pikiran tetap tidak bisa selalu mengikuti aktivitas yang sedang dikerjakan, misalkan ketika sholat, meski mulut membaca surat, doa, pikiran kadang memiliki agenda sendiri, wandering mind.

Apakah ini menjadikan kita tidak bahagia dengan adanya pikiran yang kemana-mana? tidak selalu, karena otak memang didesain seperti itu, akan selalu mencari pelarian.

Untuk muslim, sholat terutama mengajarkan kita akan presence, mindful, berada saat itu, sadar akan diri sendiri, sadar apa yang sedang kita lakukan/kerjakan

The happy upshot of this study is that it suggests a wonderfully simple prescription for greater happiness: think about what you’re doing. But be warned that like any prescription, following it is very different from just knowing it’s good for you. In addition to the usual difficulties of breaking bad or unhelpful habits, your brain may also be wired to work against your attempts stay present.

our brains settle into a conspicuous pattern of activity that corresponds to mind-wandering. This signature ‘resting’ activity is coordinated across several widespread brain areas, and is argued by many to be evidence of a brain network that is active by default.

Untuk menguasai dan praktek mindfulness, perlu banyak latihan, dan itu sulit, dan tidak akan bisa 100% menguasai, otak kita didesain untuk kesana-kesini.

link ke paper: Science, atau download papernya.

Moving on with life, one workplace to another. Since quitting from previous company, take more time with little one, since he had autism diagnosed couple years ago, with him, we (me and wife) visit quite a lot of therapy center.

And this time, Alhamdulillah, I’m back to the workforce again, with a lot of hope and dreams obviously, and pray that everything that we fought for does not wasted.

This video speaks my worries, the thing that we probably think it is a harmless thing, like scrolling our phone, watching youtube, netflix or any other media consumption service, their main focus is our focus, our attention (some call it attention economy), even our time as human.

We might not notice it, or notice it but tend or choose to ignore it, how many time we talk with our friends, families? talk as in an offline activity exchange words between two people or more, facing each other, not via whatsapp, email or other tools.

In the video there’s people who bring actual grass to an event, to give them sense how to feel touching grass, real grass, mind boggling.

It’s a reminder that there’s a lot of thing in the outside world, not just your TikTok feeds, Instagram reels etc, in 2017, Netflix even double down to monitize this loneliness, saying that sleep is their competitor, THE sleep, the thing that we need to do, not to mention other things like praying, playing with kids, family.

Still about A.I, and the rise of AI, and it was not about the will rule the world with menace and kill every human like Terminator or The Matrix, it’s our job, human deem to inefficient, obviously this is about money/revenue/profit of the company that adopt AI without considering human in its part, combined with company search for more profits, could be deadly for human.

Article from The Verge, https://www.theverge.com/news/688679/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-efficiency

“As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,” Jassy says. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”

And article from Bloomberg, where Microsoft reduce human workforce.

The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

I think there will be more to come, not sure when this trend will stop.

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I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.

Kena banget, seperti yang dibahas di postingan sebelumnya, mengenai hubungan AI dan cognitive decay, untuk yang sebelumnya menggunakan otaknya untuk berpikir, kontemplasi, menciptakan ide-ide yang melatih otak kita sendiri, atau bahkan share ide-ide itu dengan orang lain, untuk braindstorm atau validasi, menjadi berubah, di satu sisi memang dimudahkan, kita tinggal lempar prompt, kemudian AI akan memberikan jawaban yang mungkin kita tidak pernah pikirkan.

Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding.

Fungsi pencarian diri, pemikiran, kemudian pengaktualisasikan ide, menunggu ide itu berkembang, dipotong prosesnya, karena cognitive offloading yang kita berikan ke “second brain”, yang jadi pikiran berikutnya, apakah pengetahuan yang kita cari dengan bantuan AI itu akan stay? atau malah hilang? karena kita berpikir, “ah tinggal tanya lagi AI, gampang”.

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