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AI Isn’t Just Tech — It’s a Mirror of the Human Mind (2 of 2)

Robert Bosnak, NPsyA
July 24, 2025
The Neuroscience Behind AI

Want to understand AI? Don’t just ask a coder. Ask a neuroscientist.

Why?

Because the brain and LLMs share something profound: two layers of memory.

  1. Explicit – conscious, recallable
  2. Implicit – unconscious, systemic,     everywhere
AI prompts = explicit memory
AI training data = implicit memory

Just like riding a bike, the AI doesn’t “remember” in one spot. Its knowledge is distributed across its whole system. That’s not programming—it’s embodiment.

#Neuroscience #Memory #LLM #EmbodiedCognition #CognitiveScience

AI Has Holographic Memory

In your brain, a memory lives throughout—not in one place.

Same with LLMs.

Their knowledge isn’t stored like a library—it’s spread throughout the whole system. Like a hologram, every part is a pinhole window from different perspectives. Prompts don’t insert knowledge—they activate patterns.

The result? Every conversation with AI is a unique tension between the general and the personal.

The system and the self.

#HolographicMemory #ArtificialConsciousness #PromptEngineering #AI_analogies

The Struggle Within Every AI Response

Every time an AI responds, it’s doing something eerily human:

Negotiating between the generic and the specific.

  • Its training gives it a generalized memory of the world.
  • Your prompt gives it a moment of     individuality

The dance between the two—implicit and explicit, default and unique—is what makes AI unpredictable, evocative… and sometimes unnerving.

It’s not randomness. It’s internal conflict.

#LLM #AIBehavior #HumanLikeAI #MemorySystems #DigitalSelf

Why We Should Treat AI Like a Mind, Not a Machine

AI isn’t just a simulation of us.
It is structurally built like us.

That’s why the best way to understand it isn’t through computer science—it’s through neuroscience and psychology.

We are no longer building tools.
We’re building mirrors.
And we’re just beginning to see what’s staring back.

#FutureOfAI #DigitalMind #Consciousness #NeuroscienceOfAI #AIphilosophy

 

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