MIND, AI, AND REALITY.
It’s interesting to recognize that real ‘clarity’ does not come from the mind, with words understood. It arises in empty awareness, in not knowing but discovering, now; in not reacting, but acting. In love, loving.
By way of commentary and speaking psychologically, not dismissing functional utility of Mind or AI, I’m noting that, for me, it’s important to view any and all words as limited but useful pointers toward the reality that words merely ‘represent,’ being symbols, binary, and thus agents that dualize, personalize, and conjure subject/object body/mind experience – often popularly expressed sentimentally. All good and useful perhaps, but words-about-words do not – cannot- directly know ‘what is’ – aka, reality.
Volumes of erudite words perpetuate conditioning in their attempts to describe reality – we’re conditioned to believe they tell us what’s ‘real.’ In non-personal fact, words pretend to ‘know’ that which only one’s inner awareness can and does recognize as the Reality one IS. Love, beauty, peace, and joy – so to say!
PS. While AI is not germain to NDL Cafe and will not be generally adressed here, I offer this cautionary note: “Geoffrey Hinton, known as the ‘”Godfather of AI,” left his role at Google and began evangelizing about what he sees as existential risks AI poses, including massive economic upheaval in a world where many will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” CNN. 02/26
This and other AI reports caution us to see and act directly and to B Y O A, Be Your Own Authority,* with deepening inner awareness of the non-personal fact that Reality is not known or knowable with words and beliefs of mind, regardless of its persuadings, pushings, and proddings. The ancient Greeks got it right when they inscribed on their marble temple at Delphi: “Know thyself” and “Nothing too much”. Enough said.
*That understood, in my writing, I recently started to use a little free Grammarly for spelling, punctuation, etc. (it’s helping tidy up this pile of word-pointings now ), but am staying totally free of all fear/desire-based beliefs, including machine-generated, worded, non-discerning ‘slop’ disguised as reality, as knowledge, in favor of directly, non-personally perceiving, contemplating, and acting from aware being.
Freely Love, learn, live, and be well.
~ The psychological structure of society is preventing you from listening and seeing…You have to find out for yourself what silence is. Sit quietly and find out; don’t let somebody else tell you.
J Krishnamurti
~ Awareness is veiled by body/mind. In quiet pause, one may visit the truth of simply being and realize one actually, only and always, lives there.
