Human-Augmented AI

While the cEngine may appear to be incredibly simple, it's not. It takes about three weeks to learn how to use it.

But fear not, young grasshopper: We'll teach you to become a clever fox, in a way that you're not accustomed to being taught; from the icy, snow-covered surface of the bright side of the moon - Neptune's moon, Triton, that is.

Until the Katherine Johnson School for Gifted Children opens in 2025, kids ages 10 and above are eligible to enroll in this Clevernomics course. Each age group has a dedicated chatroom, and kids must be supervised by their parents while chatting.

Chatting is voluntary. You're not our first creative introvert, and you won't be our last.

Clevernomics is the first creativity course offered by the G. Von Leibniz School of Innovation at Heehler Institute. Heehler is a pro-democracy, private academic institution. When the school opens in 2024, all prospective students will be vetted during registration with a 5-question survey. Candidates who harbor a contempt for democracy, or claim to believe in baseless conspiracy theories, whether left wing, right wing, or any wing, are prohibited from enrolling. Those who are later discovered in a chat will be banned from the chat room and disenrolled from the school.

It only takes a few minutes of using the cEngine to realize that it works exceedingly well, in the same way that doing algebra confirms that algebra works exceedingly well. No studies or scientific claims are needed for either. (The demonstration video, "The cEngine in Action," is slated for release in November of 2023.)

Whether you’re using the Heehler Institute’s open-source version of AI in the Auxiliary screen of the cEngine, or your own AI account with Google or Open AI, expect artificial intelligence to be available free of charge to all students and graduates who have obtained their GVL creative license.

Heehler Institute is comprised of two online cyber-learning brands; the G. Von Leibniz School of Innovation (primarily for adults - where Clevernomics is taught), and the Katherine Johnson School for Gifted Children. The purpose of the Katherine Johnson School is to turn every-day kids into creatively gifted kids by incorporating the Andromeda cEngine into their curriculum (inventive learning).

For example, where a conventional school would teach a child that "Columbus discovered America in 1492," KJ students use the cEngine to invent a way for a commoner like Columbus to gain an audience with a queen, invent a way to navigate a sea, invent a way to prevent the onset of scurvy, and invent a way to gain the cooperation of the human beings Columbus "discovered," (as opposed to what he actually did, which was to self-identify as a sea pirate, and terrorize everyone into submission).

In other words, Katherine Johnson creates gifted kids; it doesn't cherry-pick them. Any school can cherry-pick the brightest of kids, and call itself a gifted program. The true measure of a school's giftedness lies in its ability to turn regular kids into exceptional adults.

The school further motivates kids by teaching within the context of what they want to be when they grow up (aspirational learning). For example, a child who wants to be an astronaut, enrolled in the "Dorothy Vaughan Space & Rocket Science School" would never be presented with a math problem involving the speed and direction of two trains. Instead, the problem is gamified as an asteroid hurtling towards the student on Neptune's moon, Triton - in real time. The only way the child survives is by solving the math problem before impact. So the school tricks kids into learning in the same way a parent might hide carrots in a child's supper. By teaching in this way (cyber-learning), kids stay engaged and excited to learn new things, because as far as they're concerned, they're training to be astronauts.

So instead of asking about a child's homework for the day, a parent would inquire into their child's "astronaut training."

The first two cyberlearning schools to open, the "Dorothy Vaughan Space & Rocket Science School," and the "Patricia O'Connor School of Veterinary Medicine," will begin accepting kids 10 and above in the fall of 2025. Kids interested in enrolling will be able to download an age-appropriate study manual, or receive a physical copy in the mail for a nominal fee. Acceptance is limited to only those candidates who achieve a 100% grade on the test relating to the material covered in the manual. Any child who fails to reach the 100% threshold will be given as many chances as necessary to pass the test (that's the proper way to grade a child, as opposed to the conventional way - which is absurd). Once a child passes, they will receive an acceptance letter sent certified, signature required. The kids think it's a big deal but we know it's just a letter.

The cEngine Pro focuses on specific professions, and so it excludes everything else under the sun - which is a lot. We want our graduates to have a well-rounded creative education, and we want them to master the fundamentals of concept-cycling before they begin to specialize.

$75.00 - which is already included in the school tuition. Expect your coursepack to arrive in a wooden crate roughly two weeks prior to class. You'll need a flat-head screwdriver to open the lid.

Please keep the 12" x 18" crate, so that the entire delivery and packaging process remains eco-friendly.

If you make an unboxing video, let us know, and Beatriz Rivera will send you a 10-pack of Notes Ex Machina paper coffee cups.

If you make an unboxing video of the coffee cups too, then we'll try to find something else to send to your over-achieving self.

Crate Inventory:

1 course textbook

1 two-pack of Notes Ex Machina (the non-replica version)

1 defamiliarized world map

1 new venture contract

2 enamel aphorism signs (2"x5")

1 ceremonial study candle

1 cEngine owner's manual

1 school handbook

GVL is responsible for all costs associated with any New Venture project. When you opt in to the program, you forego your right to develop or patent your idea for a period of three years (in exchange for 10% of all future profits generated).

GVL retains the lion's share of any future profits (90%), because the school assumes all of the financial risk, as well as any possible liability associated with the product or service being developed.

Revenue generated by the New Venture Initiative will be used to subsidize construction of "Steelhenge," the new campus situated on a 1,000-acre wild-horse sanctuary outside Missoula, Montana. The design firm of Sporano & Mooney Architecture has been chosen to command the project, which will consist of several metallic structures built into the base of a 900-foot hill, eventually progressing upward toward the summit.

Each year, the Board of Trustees will invite three alumni to live and work on campus - free of any financial obligations. The three "Steelhenge Prizes" will be awarded on the fall equinox of each year, and run from January to December. Prize winners (creatives-in-residence) are expected to use the cEngine to produce a minimum of three patented inventions or artifacts, and entrust them with the school upon completion of their residencies.

The campus will also offer free incubator space to a select group of blockchain start-ups, while serving as the physical headquarters for the upcoming blockchain think tank, the "Blockchain Institute of Montana."

Cars are prohibited on campus - in deference to the horses - and so a hidden car park will lie nestled under a canopy of juniper and pine within walking distance to the site. Construction of the sustainable campus is slated for the spring of 2025.

Sporano & Mooney have won many awards.

Harriet Tubman escaped her slave owner, became a “conductor” on the underground railroad (she “never lost a passenger”), and served as an armed scout and spy for the Union army, liberating hundreds of people and dozens of families. An electron will change its behavior if it’s observed by a conscious being. When the U.S. offered to evacuate the president of Ukraine as Russia attacked, Volodymyr Zelenskyy replied, "I need ammo, not a ride."

You've got enough inspiration. It’s time to get to work.

Absolutely!

It's actually not his idea. Gottfried von Leibniz is the true inventor. You can find out more here.

Yes. The fuel required for the engine to operate is kept in the fuel tank - in the form of 3,604 thought-molecules. Each thought-molecule is individually forced through a special tube to be "aerosolized" into the form of a what-if question. Your mind is the piston that poses the what-if question to any chosen scenario in 13 different ways. The process is repeated again and again, just like any other engine.

So in a very real way, Andromeda is ultimately you - or as we like to put it, "The Machine is You."

Notes Ex Machina is a creativity experiment designed to answer the question: What would happen if the cEngine were used in real-time, and in real-world conditions, to dramatically enhance a pre-exiting product or service?

When we chose the pocket notebook industry as our guinea pig - an industry about which we know very little - it begged the question: Could the cEngine produce a product that would compete with, and also improve upon iconic brands like Field Notes, Leuchtturm1917, and Moleskine?

We think our notebooks will do precisely that, and after the initial limited-edition prints are made available to the public this fall, we'll continue issuing new quarterly editions thereafter.

Your first Notes Ex Machina (the original) is embossed with your name and your chosen field of interest, whether it be a Certificate of Insight in Business Innovation, Artistic Innovation, Scientific Innovation, or Leadership and Innovation. You will not be charged for this original version. It comes with your coursepack two weeks prior to the first day of class.

Our advice is to safeguard the original. If you use the cEngine routinely (and you should) your original Notes Ex Machina may be worth a tidy sum one day.

If you do in fact lose the original, GVL will offer a $100 reward for its safe return.

cEngine access is renewed every four years, on the first day of the Winter Olympics (makes it easy to remember). The four-year renewal fee is set at $25 to cover the cost of maintenance and blockchain upgrades. "Idea Tree" contributors pay no fee when they renew their registration.

Displaying on LinkedIn will require a GVL Creative License number issued upon certification. Instructions can be found in the cEngine owner's manual.

While mirror-writing is part of the curriculum, only "Letter of Merit" candidates are required to become proficient mirror-writers.

Creating new things becomes easier after you've disconnected yourself from your usual place, and from your usual time. (There's a logic to the madness of Clevernomics.)

Not to mention that Triton is the best place in the solar system to get some peace and quiet for studying.

One of the Leibnizian concepts we applied to it was Gga553 (Giganticism), and people seem to like it gigantic - gives it sort of a 2001 Space Odyssey vibe.

And yes, you heard right; we used the cEngine on the cEngine. We do it all the time when we want to make improvements.

Leibnizian concepts are identical to ordinary concepts, with two key exceptions: Leibnizian concepts include compounds (special combinations of concepts) as well as formulas (concepts and compounds applied to a specific subject in one of 13 specific ways).

We like to think of Leibnizian concepts as "thought-molecules."

Without these special thought-molecules, it would take a human being years to do what the cEngine can do in mere hours or even minutes.

The course is comprised of six lectures, two per week, each requiring an hour of your time. Each lecture requires you, the student, to discover things that the lecturer does not already know, and make those things known to the entire pack. You’ll do this by applying the cEngine to aspects of your own life or career field. These insights will be cataloged into the cEngine database for future packs to see and study. Your name will be recorded as the author of each entry you submit – although you do have the option to remain anonymous.

After the first lecture, you’ll be given access to the learning version of the cEngine, where you’ll be presented with training scenarios that require you to cycle through a variety of Leibnizian concepts to solve and innovate each scenario. Your training scenarios will relate to your chosen certificate field. Expect to devote roughly 90 minutes of cEngine practice time for each of the six lectures. The final lecture will introduce the many initiatives, projects, and programs available to you upon successful completion of the GVL licensing test. A grade of 100 % is required for certification, and students may retake missed test scenarios as many times as necessary to achieve a perfect score. The test should take no more than 90 minutes to complete.

You will receive your “certificate of insight” via snail mail shortly thereafter, along with your creative license, graduate endowment stamps, and any special access codes relating to your chosen post-graduate programs.

You’ll also be given a choice between the conventional version of your certificate, and the portal version that comes with its own circular brass frame (modeled after the actual portals on the cEngine). If you opt for the conventional rectangular certificate, we’re going to assume that you’re being ironic.

After you receive your creative license, it is recommended that you avail yourself of as many post-graduate programs (diabolical schemes) as possible. Most are funded by your original tuition, and so they are available at no further cost.

The goddess Andromeda was forsaken to history in much the same way as was the cEngine in 1666. Both would eventually be rescued, and both would go on to rule the universe.

That, plus it sounds really awesome and a little dangerous even - which it is.

There's never been a shortage of anti-creatives in the world. In fact, most people have a conscious or subconscious aversion to creativity - because real creativity requires one to embrace uncertainty and risk.