Language is obviously a barrier here. But I have solved this problem. I hope one of you stick with it until you realise.

I made hundreds of thousands in profit over 2 years playing online poker professionally, and then I spent 5 years mapping out the most efficient way to consider 1 poker decision. That must be worth something.

(Upon completing my task, I realised beginners use the perfect thought process naturally. I realised then that this CogD effects everyone)

Lol I honestly do think I could teach those AI guys to program a conscious mind. It shouldn’t be difficult, the only problem until now has been that the people who try to design an artificial mind have a subconscious mind that blocks thier ability to consciously recognise how the mind works.

... (does make sense of you think about it)

By imagination, I do not mean they are able to decide on alternative options...

To understand what I mean by imagination you have to understand that to the spider the future is completely incomprehensible. The way they make decisions is by analysing current information via senses, then remembering the value of strategies for each situation. This is a two step process for the mind.

1- The spider weighs the strength of the attributes of the external phenomenon...
... against ...
2- the strength of its own attributes.

This enables them to estimate whether or not an action will be successful. Whether they will gain value or lose value from trying to capture the fly.

By imagination, I mean the ability to create a fake version of that calculation in your mind. This enables you to imagine situations you are not directly involved in. It enables you to image what you look like from the outside. It enables you to imagine how your actions will be perceived.

This process has three steps.
1 - Your perceived self, or future self, effects...
2- The external phenomenon, changing its strength, which we then...
3 - weigh up against our strength.

The extra step is actually a mirror in the mind. This is the second mirror in the mind. If you understand the mirrors, you understand the mind.

It’s disappointing that you guys clearly have this same cognitive dissonance stopping you from understanding how the mind works.

Either that, or I’m crazy. One of us is defo mental lol.

I’d think it was me if I wasn’t the most advanced poker theorist in the world. If I hadn’t already spent years dealing with this same problem in relation to a game I know like the back of my hand.

We will find out how crazy I am at Christmas. When my new exchange system is launched. A website that rewards charity... I think it will sweep the globe quickly bringing paradise to earth, if it does, you guys will all be wishing id finished that post lol.

Lol, I do understand it. So, you want me to tell you why there is something special about consciousness. You want me to tell you why you are so special.

You think “A conscious observer gives structure to very essence of everything, it must be special”. But that’s not even true. An aware being that is unconscious, like a tree, will also give substance to the universe.

We decision makers are special. Especially self-aware creatures like humans. As we can one day realise that we are God.

The subjective nature of consciousness is just the result of self-Awareness.

The only reason it feels like something “special” to you is because you are suffering from cognitive dissonance and your subconscious mind is exploiting your arrogance to stop you understanding something very simple.

If you make a computer self aware it will view the world from a subjective perspective.

That isnt what will happen unless people know about this psychological problem. Poker will just die. It's nearly there. The number of professional players in plummeting as their winrates plumet. It isnt the first game to go and it wont be the last.

I'm pretty sure that all trust in imperfect strategies, like, "you should eat with your mouth closed", causes this psychological problem. This person will feel disgust when they see someone eating with their mouth open, not because it's particularly disgusting, it wont make him ill, its mostly just this psychological problem causing him discomfort. I think this is a major problem to all of us. So please do keep it in mind as you continue to contemplate such things.

And mate, winning in a game like Poker, a luck based game, is not going to make many people believe me. Reaching enlightenment. That will do it... My name means Hands of God. It also contains the word Allah. This makes it fulfill both Buddhist and Muslim prophecies for the name of some important religious dude who will do all the things I think I can do if only I get some credibility. I dont think there is any point in teaching this to people anymore. I'm going to work on meditation instead. I'm going to work on myself.

Come on man, if the ranges always become more balanced as you advance through the Levels, that is pretty good evidence to say that as these Levels become more balanced as they advance.

I was only making that point because it is one of the smallest and most obvious new things I've realised about poker theory. But still non will accept it anyway.

I studyied this psychological problem for years. I've taught these Levels for years. Nobody before me realised that these Levels get more balanced as they advance. I am the leading mind in respect of these Levels. And over all these years studying these Levels I have come up with countless pieces of evidence, but, with everyone in the poker world saying that everything I'm saying is nonsense, that I am not the best at anything other than chatting nonsense, how am I supposed to fund some kind of official test????

I already took a long rest, a long break from Poker, you're starting to think I might be suffering from some kind of psychological issue but mate, for the last 9 months, since releasing that book, I've been a happy construction worker. A family man. I only talk poker at night after the kids have gone to sleep.

If exploitation is natural, really easy to learn, its childsplay, its more profitable and it leads to GTO when necessary, why bother using GTO instead? You are kinda saying that you should exploit when seeing the weaknesses in the opponents strategy -

- These weaknesses can be created almost as easily as they can be discovered. You can mislead the opponent.

- More importantly, you do have something real wrong about these strategies. Exploitation caters for GTO, it eventually leads to it. If you using purely exploitative logic and can see no way to exploit the opponent you will be using GTO. But, if you start off by using this GTO strategy you are starting at the end, you are skipping the exploitative logic that comes before it and saying "Its ok, I can always go back if I see a weakness". What I'm saying here is that there is a psychological issue that stops you from going back. Your mind will stop you from seeing this exploitative logic if you already understand GTO. You wont be able to see the holes in the opponents strategy that you could exploit, and so what will you do, stay with GTO more.

Mate, what you said to Pilgrim was all correct. You clearly know lots about Poker. But, everything you said in that post to me was a result of this psychological problem...

You explained some random things about both GTO and exploitation and said that these are the reasons you think my logic is wrong. "GTO is maximising your profit against all kinds of hands". This is true, I already explained this with the goalkeeper analogy earlier, it true, but its completely beside the point. To me, who is extremely well versed in this terminology, this is just crazy talk.

You also said "Where is the argument. evidence or proof". Without going into that evidence here, in that thread I linked, you clearly must have seen my evidence in the very first post. The entire first post was that evidence. If you force me to, I can explain here how clear the evidence is, but I think we've probably fried everyones brains with all this poker jargon already. That entire thread was based on what I deem to be ridiculously strong evidence. I even gave examples to back up the evidence!! And you say, "wheres the evidence?". Come on man, that is not rational. "Your evidence is wrong". "The evidence isnt strong enough".

Now watch, he will see the evidence and come up with a different reason to dismiss it. Never will he accept it. If I go through all poker theory, explain every single factor about the game perfectly, he will just resort to mocking me. They'll join together and get the mods to ban me. If it even gets that far. They'll even complain about the stress as they demand I be removed. They'll do anything, but accept that what I'm saying is true.

All I'm saying here is that you need to learn the exploitative theory before learning GTO. To prevent this psychological problem.

The natural thought-process that we use is almost entirely exploitative. This means that if you learn GTO before learning how to exploit, your mind will stop you from being able to see how to exploit.

Game Theory is the study of rational decision making. People in all kinds of fields use it to help them make the best possible decisions.

There are two types of "Best Decision" that you can make -

- What we poker players call exploitative. This strategy aims to maximise your 'winnings' by choosing the strategy that best plays against your opponents weaknesses. For example, if you were playing football and were against a short goal-keeper, you would aim somewhere towards the top of the goal.

- What we poker players call GTO. This strategy aims to make the most profit against all the different types of opponents regardless of the individuals weakness. If you use this strategy you will, basically, aim your shot into all the different parts of the goal, so that the opponent doesnt know which way you are going to go.

There are pros and cons to using both of these strategies. What I am saying, is that trusting in GTO as the best strategy causes a conflict in your mind, this is because subconsciously we all know that this is not the best strategy that we can adopt in almost any real life situation.

Game Theory is the study of rational decision-making. People in many fields use it to help them make the best decisions possible.

There are two types of "best strategy" that we can apply.

- There is a strategy we poker players call exploitative. This type of strategy maximises your profit by playing against your opponents weaknesses. If the goal-keeper is short, we aim our shot somewhere towards the top of the goal.

- The only other type of strategy, we poker players call, GTO. Game Theory Optimal. This strategy does not account for the opponents weaknesses, but instead, gives us the best strategy we could use on average against all opponents. We would basically aim our shot to all areas of the goal, so that the keeper didnt know where we were going to aim next.

There are pro's and cons to using both of these strategies. What I am saying here, is that trusting in GTO as the best strategy causes conflict in the mind, because we subconsciously know that this is clearly not going to be best strategy to adopt in almost any real life situation.

They said pretty clearly about 100 times that; "GTO has nothing to do with thoughts". "You cant reach GTO using thoughts alone". "You need math to find GTO".

I'm saying that both, using the math, and, using these Levels, leads you to the same set of moves. The same strategy. GTO.

We will need a good mathematician to calculate GTO in Tic-tak-toe using math. But it is easy for a child to work it out using their mind. By all means do get a mathematician in here, and I'll get my 7 year old girl, we can record a little session and you will see clearly that they both use the same strategy.

To address the concerns those on the poker site had -

They say that GTO is a complex mathematical equation and can not be calculated using the mind without using some complex math.

I can prove they are wrong very easily, this is rediculous, but I just get blocked and banned from their sites. They mock me and then quickly silence me.

Proof - Have you ever played tic-tak-toe? After playing for a short while with the same opponent you realise that there is no longer any point in playing. This is because you have both reached GTO. You didnt use any complex math. You used only the mind. You used the method that I am trying to explain to everyone.

Back in 1950 John Nash found a way to calculate GTO using math. I have now found another way. A far simpler way. It's childs-play. But the mind rejects anything unrecognised about this built-in thought-process. The more experienced you are in the 'game', the more violent the rejection. This makes it almost impossible for me to get the work appraised.

To address the issue those on that poker site had with my logic-

They say that GTO is a mathematical equation. And so you cant work it out using the strategic thought-process built into our minds.

Game Theory itself is the science of rational decision making, so to say that thoughts couldn't possibly lead to Game Theory Optimal is rediculous. I've mapped out the rational decision-making method used by humans, and it leads to GTO.

What I'm saying is that yes, John Nash, back in 1950, found a mathematical way to reach game theory optimal. I have now found another way to reach the same place. GTO is one specific strategy. A specific set of moves. I have found another way to concoct the same strategy. Instead of using Nash's Math, we just use the Levels of the Mind.

I can prove it really easily - You ever play tick-tack-toe as a kid. We call it Naughts and Crosses in the UK. Well, after you have played this game a few times with a certain person you realise that there is no point in playing anymore because every game ends in a draw. The reason that every game ends in a draw is is because both you and the opponent have reached GTO. As kids, none of us studied a complex mathematical equation. We didnt use any math at all. We used our minds, what poker players call the Levels of thought, and we reached GTO.

I can prove it really easily but they keep banning me and blocking me as they are desperate to stop me speaking. I cant get anywhere with these guys. It's just one irrational argument after the next. I mean, the evidence I just presented to you is childsplay to a poker theorist. They are just going mental.

I hope the 18 year old brat was not me... I was way too poor to be a brat.

And.. The human mind blatantly is capable of understanding everything. Buddha claimed to have cracked it all and there is loads of evidence backing him up; He accurately described the expansion of the universe, and the development of a baby in the womb. He also spoke a lot of atoms and seemed to have a good grasp of quantum physics. How could he know these things if not through some "spiritual" method. He also, like Einstein, seemed to say that it is the conscious observer who gives shape to the universe. Not so much a computer simulation, but more like a combining of the spiritual world with physical world to create everything as we know it.

Ahhh so it was lost in the translation! The original quote from Plato sounds perfect. And so, it appears as though Socrates was indeed as smart as I was when I was 18... Recently I managed to map out strategic thought-process used by all living beings which I do fancy might put me on top of the pile. I worked out why Socrates was killed too; something called cognitive dissonance was the real cause of his demise. It's the same thing that is stopping me from selling Poker guides.