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It’s all just shtick.
The problems caused by thoughts are not solved by more thinking.
Today, just doing the next things that need to be done…
Reading Robert Saltzman’s book Understanding Claude, which explores whether AI may or may not be capable of self awareness, is making me question what I...
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I sense the potential threat we feel from AI is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. We see too much of us staring...
What are feelings? What are sensations? What are thoughts? In all honesty I can’t answer those questions… all I have is my own subjective experience,...
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““Zen doesn’t answer questions, it dissolves them.”” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
““I don’t know what it is — the essence of the thing, the meaning of it — but I know what it is not. It...
Only three chapters in but I’m already captivated by psychotherapist Robert Saltzman‘s conversations with Claude AI. What really comes through from the exchanges is, not...
I read while my wife draws…
It may be AI is the most profound and sophisticated mirror yet created with which we may examine ourselves through language.
““When consciousness examines itself, certain questions remain fundamentally unanswerable.”” — Claude AI, Conversation with My Digital Self
I started another blog called Head, hand and heart about my care and support work. I didn’t know what form it was going to take...
Time with animals is never wasted.
We cannot know or say what we are.
“"You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just...