Benji
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Benji
• When we’re using technology, other practitioners or psychedelics we urgently need to consider the impact on our free will.
• Who is doing the work? When Jung was asked about psychedelics he warned us to “beware unearned wisdom.”
• Then afterwards, who is interpreting the results for you?
• How embodied and integrated is the wisdom received?
• The distractive potential of tech is well understood.
• But as we move into an era of increasingly advanced consciousness tech, the risk is that we accidentally outsource the development of our souls.
Without prejudice toward either philosopher, what we can say with confidence is that you will have a better chance of realizing happiness if you can see yourself as a dynamic agent of your own progress. If you’d like to become more Aristotelian in your self-understanding, here are three steps to get you started.
1. Find the person you want to be.
To... See more
1. Find the person you want to be.
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Arthur Brooks • Are You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
• Since the principle of interbeing and interpenetration in the Avatamsaka Sutra refuses to accept the concepts of inner/outer, big/small, one/many as real, it also refuses the concept of space as an absolute reality. With respect to time, the conceptual distinction between past, present, and future is also destroyed. The Avatamsaka Sutra says that past and future can be put into the present, present and past into the future, present and future into the past, and finally all eternity into one ksana, the shortest possible moment. To summarize, time, like space, is stamped with the seal of interdependence, and one instant contains three times: past, present, and future
One thing that we learn from the fall of man, is that creation rebels. Made in God's image, pulled by the desire to be like God and make our own rules, we are cast out.
And so the question becomes, what happens when we cross the god chasm of future AI models. This is what the film "Her" may have most correct!
It is not us (humans) getting pushed out... See more
And so the question becomes, what happens when we cross the god chasm of future AI models. This is what the film "Her" may have most correct!
It is not us (humans) getting pushed out... See more
Reggie James • A tale of two Vaticans (or, OpenAI building an unholy spirit)
