In 2025, We Will Witness 'Two Emergences'
Why talk about life again now?
It is not because I am a doctor.
The answer lies within the 'generative AI' we use every day.
The unexpected leap in capabilities shown by AI is a phenomenon that should truly be called'the emergence of intelligence'.However, 3.8 billion years ago, there was a much grander and more fundamental
'emergence of life'on Earth.
Unraveling the mystery of these two births is nothing less thaninstalling a'new OS' within yourself to survive this era of change.
In 2025, we are at a historical turning point.
This series is an intellectual invitation for that journey.
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The First Mystery of '0→1' — The Moment Soup Turned into 'Life'
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■ Our bodies are a 'miraculous universe' composed of 37 trillion cells.
So, how exactly did the 'first cell,' the source of all those cells, come to be born on this Earth?
■ 'How did a "soup" of inorganic molecules transform into "life" that possesses intent and reproduces?'
■ The answer is the 'transition from chaos to order'.
Just as water turns into ice, it is the science of 'phase transition' and 'emergence' where a completely new order called life is born from a soup of inorganic molecules.
This is a truly magical moment where matter changes into something more than just the sum of its parts.
■ Life is,not merely a collection of matter, but a self-organizing system born through 'emergence'なのです。
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Another Mystery of '0→1' — The Moment Calculation Turned into 'Intelligence'
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■ Why is it that generative AI like ChatGPT, which surprises us daily, can engage in natural conversation as if it were human?
Is it just the result of executing a program?
Or is there a deeper mystery hidden within?
■ 'How did computer "calculation" suddenly transform into human-like "intelligence"?
Is it by chance, or is it inevitable?'
■ The intelligence of generative AI like ChatGPT that we are witnessing is a classic example of an 'emergence' phenomenon, where unexpected capabilities arise from massive amounts of data and staggering calculations (much like the primordial soup of life).
I would like to unravel the surprising analogy (similarity) to the birth of life and explain in this series how AI acquired 'intelligence'.
■ The evolution of AI is,based on the same principle of 'emergence' as the birth of life.
This means that a completely new chapter has been added to the 3.8-billion-year story of life.
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The Memory of the Genome — The 'Universal Code' Supporting the Two Births of Life and AI
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■ Neither life nor AI ends once it is born.
To maintain their astonishing capabilities and continue to evolve, a mechanism is required to accurately preserve vast amounts of information and pass it on to the next generation.
What exactly is the secret behind this?
■ "How do the 'genome,' the blueprint of life, and 'trained parameters,' the treasure trove of AI knowledge, each encode information and pass on 'memories' to the next generation?"
■ The 'genome' that ensures the continuity of life is like an 'immutable OS written into hardware.'
On the other hand, the 'trained parameters' of large language models in AI are also a vast collection of memories that condense all kinds of information from the world.
Understanding the structure and function of these two universal codes leads to updating yourself—that is, reprogramming.
■ Both the genome and AI models are 'crystals of memory' that condense past information.
However, static memory alone cannot cope with a constantly changing world.
The key to the next evolution lies in the 'rewriting' of memory.
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The Ultimate Law for Updating Yourself — The 'Epigenome' Revolution
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■ Our genome is a 'blueprint' that hardly changes from the moment we are born.
However, even identical twins, who should have the same blueprint, can differ significantly in personality and health as they grow.
Where exactly is the key that creates these invisible differences?
■ "Why is it that identical twins, who should have the same blueprint (genome), can sometimes lead completely different lives?
What is the ultimate key to rewriting our own 'life OS'?"
■ Running countless applications on the unshakable OS called the genome, the 'epigenome' is what rewrites you in real-time.
Diet, exercise, sleep, and thought—I will explain in subsequent installments, with concrete examples, how these 'environments' turn gene switches ON/OFF and influence your body and mind.
■ The core of this series, 'The Law of Self-Update', is that
just as AI becomes smarter through additional learning, we humans can also 'update' our minds and bodies to a better state through the epigenome, via the interaction between our own will and the environment.
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Life, AI, and we ourselves are not fixed, static entities.
We are 'emergent systems' that continually recreate ourselves through interaction with the environment.
This series is an invitation to a journey to update your own 'OS' and perform at your best in an uncertain, ever-changing world.
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▶ Bonus [Audio Delivery]
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