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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...
Good morning.
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,...
Good morning.
““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...
There are few greater pleasures than sitting in the sun, with a gentle breeze, favoured drink of choice in hand, watching the world and/ or...
There comes a time when, if you come to recognise, accept and are grateful for the truth of your own unique and personal aliveness, that...
There’s no understanding or explaining this, there is only being this. You can’t study to be what you already are. You don’t need to understand...
““The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.”” — Chögyam...
About to jump in the car and head home. Won’t take as long being a Sunday and picking our son up from the station on...
““You have to do nothing to be who you are. Nothing at all.”” — H. W. L. Poonja
Refrain from turning nothing into something.
Having a ball away visiting old friends and work colleagues with my wife. Lots of fun and laughs. Will update my encounter with the people...
““The world wants our productivity, not our presence.”” — Shiv Sengupta
Delighted to discover our friends now live on a boat!
In meditation/ contemplation silence is not an absence of sound but rather the intimate, unconditional and wordless experience of whatever is happening.
Random morning photo.
So we made it. It’s a refreshing change to back on our old stomping ground. We had a nice evening walk along the beach last...
““We go on—not upward, not forward, but just on…”” — Soham AI
““To stop when silence is clearer than words…”” — Soham AI
““Peace of mind does not need to be earned or deserved, only noticed.”” — Robert Saltzman
On the road with wife and dog.
““At some point, we realise all our little hopes and dreams for the web are pointless because it’s all out of our hands. And yet...
The sense, the feeling of ‘I am, this is, I am this’ is not the same as the sense of ‘me, self and ego’. It’s...
Being Awake
[YouTube Video] Shiv Shengupta, Dark Knight of the Soul
Five hour drive across the country tomorrow back to where we used to live. A few days catching up with old friends which we’re really...
Practice is not immediately remedial or about making yourself feel better right now. It is simply seeing and recognising with clear honesty whatever is happening...
I accompanied my son as he drove to the optician’s to collect his new specs, which look good on him. Mowed the lawn and just...
A nice meditation group this evening. Glorious birdsong infused the sit throughout as the sun set. Meditation/ contemplation asks questions with no answers. Or perhaps...
Bit of an intense day today. Waaaay too much caffeine (even for me) too early did me in and I felt anxious and jittery for...
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” — William Hazlitt
The weather is as impressively dank and grey today as it was clear and bright yesterday but in no way less impactful for that. I...
Stunning walk with my wife into the wilderness today. Glorious sunshine pouring down onto a few walkers and wild horses, the only inhabitants of the...
The house is asleep apart from me and the dog. The church gate creeks across the lane. Cars hiss past the corner. The washing machine...
““If we can set aside the urge to declare what AI is—machine or mind, tool or threat—we may find ourselves better able to inquire into...
