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To comprehend such complexity, the speaker advocates for building the mind—reverse engineering the brain—as the most effective approach. Rather than only studying the mind externally through psychology or neuroscience, constructing artificial intelligence becomes a method for decoding human cognition. It’s analogous to martial arts training: one cannot fully grasp the essence of a technique through hypothesis alone; firsthand practice reveals truths that theoretical study might miss. Building AI, then, becomes a scientific process—testing, failing, refining—similar to combat sports where facing real opponents exposes the limits and nuances of technique.