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Having listened to the Dhamma and been deeply impressed by it, the Upali (gruhapathi) requested that he be accepted as a disciple of the Buddha.
“Do not be hasty. Reflect carefully before making your decision.”
Such was the advice given by the Buddha.
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The Soul and the Electrode
@elonmusk, you want to find the soul with a chip. To me, that is like trying to find the ocean by measuring a single wave.
The claim going around is that Neuralink will fully unravel the soul, and the consciousness that took 13.8 billion years to appear. Maybe you said it, maybe someone said it for you. Either way, I want to answer it as an old friend who went looking for the same thing and came back.
Neuralink will show you which neurons fire when a man feels full. It will never show you the fullness itself.
Science has already run this experiment, with a milkshake. At Yale in 2011, everyone drank the same 380-calorie shake. Half were told it was a 620-calorie indulgence, the other half a 140-calorie diet drink. Ghrelin, the hunger hormone, dropped far more steeply in the "indulgent" group. Same molecules, same stomach…only the meaning was different. And the meaning moved the chemistry.
A sensor would record that effect perfectly and miss its cause completely. Hunger ending is known only from inside, by the one who feels it. In our tradition this is called pratyaksha, direct knowing. That is not a gap in your data.
Modern Western science already knows this wall well. In 1995 David Chalmers called the brain's functions the "easy problems." Why any of it is felt at all is the hard problem. Neuralink is a world-class machine for the easy problems. The hard one is simply not on its roadmap.
Nagel said you can know every fact about echolocation and still not know what it is like to be a bat. And in Mary's room, a scientist who knows every physical fact about red still learns something new the first time she actually sees it. Put simply, your implant is Mary's textbook. Brilliant, complete, and still in black and white.
In 2025, Nature published the biggest head-to-head test yet of the two leading theories of consciousness. 256 people, fMRI, MEG, electrodes inside the brain. Both theories failed key predictions. We can find where conscious content shows up, but not what makes it conscious. Correlates are only footprints. Nobody has seen the walker.
In 2023 at UT Austin, a decoder reconstructed people's thoughts from brain scans. But it only worked on the person it was trained on, and when that person simply chose to resist, it fell apart. Even the best mind-reader on Earth needs the mind to say yes. So who is giving the permission?
Penfield stimulated thousands of awake brains. He could make a hand move or bring back a memory. He never once made a patient decide. They told him, "I didn't do that. You did." He found the instrument, never the player.
Yes, the dust took 13.8 billion years to arrange itself. But what is looking through the dust did not arrive late. Matter and mind are not cause and effect. They are one totality, seen from two sides…neurons from outside, hunger and its ending from inside. You can never see the non-physical through the physical.
We are energy beings. You want to harvest a planet, then a star, then a galaxy. First know the energy you are. Otherwise every Kardashev level is just a bigger plate for the same hunger. A storm inside doesn't calm on Mars, and it won't calm in an implant.
You once put our odds of living in base reality at "one in billions." So the man who thinks the world is a rendering wants to find what's real by measuring the rendering in finer detail. Right or wrong, the player is not in the pixels.
Build Neuralink. Give paralyzed people their hands and voices back; I'm cheering for that. Just don't tell eight billion hungry people that the end of their hunger is coming in a firmware update.
Upatissa found it first and went straight back for Kolita. That is what friends do. The instrument you need isn't in Fremont. It is the one reading this sentence.
So tell me, friend: when Neuralink finally finds consciousness, who will be the one looking at the result?
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