This is a back and forth conversation with AI to see what AI really knows. Can it think outside the box? The answer to the first question I asked it is telling. It couldn’t, and simply gave me a normal and predictable answer. Then the conversation wandered off to unexpected and interesting areas. I felt […]
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Quantum Superposition as the Driver of Insight
A Moment of This-ness In 1964 I was living in Bangkok, riding to work each day on the bus. I was twenty-two. Word came that my eighteen-year-old younger brother had died. What I felt, more than anything, was an unrelenting profound curiosity. I felt the utter black-and-white starkness of life on one side and an […]
Continue reading…Buddhism and the Thermodynamic Chain
Introduction: A Paradox at the Heart of Buddhism Buddhism presents us with an apparent contradiction. In the Second Noble Truth, Buddha tells us that “the illusion of self originates and manifests itself in a cleaving to things.” Yet in the Third Truth, he says that by “conquering self, the flames of desire will be extinguished.” […]
Continue reading…Life’s Chain of Causation
Entropy → Fear → Need → Action → Life Meaning → “Happiness” (→ = gives rise to, begets, causes) This chain of causation is offered not as scientific proof but as a pointer, something to test against your own experience. As Buddha insisted: take nothing on faith. Verify it yourself, or discard it. Two Separate […]
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