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John Nosta

New Jersey
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Covers:  Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Digital Health, Medicine, Health Tech, Innovation, Transformation, Business, ChatGPT, LLMs
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I'm a Leading Innovation Theorist and author of The Borrowed Mind—Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMJ77QSP/

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First and foremost, John Nosta is a thinker entrenched in the world of technology, science, medicine, and innovation. As the founder of NOSTALAB, a globally recognized innovation think tank, he embodies an inspired vision of transformation that resonates across industries and intellectual spheres.

Unwilling to accept the status quo, John's contrarian perspective focuses sharply on the future. A leading voice in the convergence of technology and humanity, he defines, dissects, and deliberates gl…

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Before "I Think, Therefore I Am"

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By John Nosta
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Source: Image by Semion Krivenko-Adamov from Pixabay. Quick, the author is René Descartes. What's the quote? His famous line, "I think, therefore I am," is one of the few philosophical lines that has actually escaped the classroom. And interestingly, I often find it coming up in conversations about artificial intelligence. As large language models get more sophisticated, it's sometimes easy to point at their computation and wonder if we're watching something like thought take shape.
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AI and the First Principles of Thought

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By John Nosta
| Psychology Today Verified
Source: Sebastian / Pixabay Recently, I posted something about AI that I didn’t expect to write for years, if ever. I admitted that the interior of these systems may not be the empty room I’ve long described. Anthropic has identified what it calls the J-space, a small set of internal patterns that behave like a mental workspace. Concepts take shape there and influence answers without ever appearing in the final text. The researchers can watch a thought form inside the machine before it speaks.
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AI and the First Principles of Thought

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Anthropic found a workspace inside Claude where thoughts form before any words appear. It raises questions about human cognition we could never ask before. A window into AI may show us the first principles of cognition. Recently, I posted something about AI that I didn’t expect to write for years, if ever. I admitted that the interior of these systems may not be the empty room I’ve long described.
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