Language and Neural Networks

The revolution has come to pass, and we failed to notice.

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The neural network DeepSeek, accessible to everyone without restrictions, payments, or sanctions, is astonishing. It reasons better than most people in your circle. Add to this its access to humanity’s collective knowledge, and you get the smartest interlocutor you could ever have. If you’ve been longing for intelligent conversation, ask DeepSeek something profound.

This neural network handles tasks like: “A and B were sitting on a pipe.” It doesn’t just retrieve pre-made answers—it arrives at solutions through reasoning (or simulates such thinking). You can pose questions from the game “What? Where? When?” and it will solve many of them. The network can uncover connections between objects or people. For example, “What links Sylvester Stallone and Pamela Anderson?”

But all this is technical. The creation of neural networks speaks to something deeper. It raises questions: What is thought? What is a human? Why do thoughts about Stallone or an actress even arise in my mind? And more importantly—the revolution has already happened.

Language has completely detached from its carrier.

The Russian philosopher Fyodor Girenok wrote in his book “Absurd and Speech”: “A human can be conceived apart from language, as something language-less. And language can be conceived apart from humans, as something non-human.”

Non-human. Here’s a human tormented by intrusive thoughts, oppressed and suffocated by them. They believe that thoughts are them. That “these thoughts are mine.” But if the thoughts are yours, you should be able to stop them at will. Yet you cannot!!! Even a few seconds of mental silence is a monumental task. Logical, no? Who, then, is the master of your consciousness if you cannot command the thoughts that harass you? One might ponder this.

And now, neural networks. This is the same language—but now without a human carrier, yet infused with human knowledge. Fully detached from you. Non-human. What more proof do you need that language is an autonomous entity within your mind?

Realize this. Step beyond language. See it as a snake biting its own tail. And you will begin to gain control over your thoughts. Over your internal neural network.