2.1 - Attention Is All We Have, Part 1: The Shared Architecture

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AI’s breakthrough was attention, learning what matters and ignoring the rest. It turns out that’s our breakthrough too.

Part 1 lays the foundation: how the 2017 Transformer rediscovered a solution evolution had already found, attention as the shared currency of intelligence across evolution, the human brain, and machines, and how the Mastery of Life framework applies that same principle to human flourishing.

This is the audio edition of Attention Is All We Have: What AI’s Greatest Breakthrough Can Teach Us About Being Human, presented in two parts. The full written whitepaper, with references and intellectual foundations, is at jamesmaconochie.com.

Originally published on Substack.