@jstock37@wordgrammer it’s almost like all systems are specific ways of looking that create/discover a participation mode with an infinitely complex reality, or something
@viemccoy Wondering if you’ve explored Rob Burbea/Soulmaking Dharma as a frame for LLM/human engagement? Could be an interesting philosophical frame to play with here!
Your brain isn't built to show you reality. It's built to keep you alive
Which means your "experience" is a semi-functional hallucination meant for prediction, not perception
Here's neuroscientist @kathryndevaney on what advanced meditation does to that machinery and what it feels like when it stops
0:00 Kati's story
2:32 The state of contemplative neuroscience
7:23 Nonduality, jhanas, and cessation
15:00 Kati's cessation experiences
21:40 Getting reality on your side
30:02 High ROI "woo" beliefs
35:35 Everything is just a story
37:31 Rewriting the operating system of the mind
44:03 How attention constructs the world
51:08 Groundlessness
1:00:35 How people actually change
1:04:12 How to restart ur meditation practice
Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.
Full episode in my bio.
Love the Burbea note here, and I think it goes even further. Meditation/contemplation goes from ‘do you want X traditions particular fantasy of practice - e.g. early Buddhism/reduction-elimination of suffering’ -> ‘what is meaningful/valuable/sacred - practice to bring that world into being’
@RogerThisdell The DMT entities phenomenon and ontology debates is an interesting parallel with AI. For the first, I’ve found an imaginal participation perspective most useful. Corbin/Burbea. I’m curious to apply this lens to AI
@davidad@repligate@AmandaAskell@tszzl So excited to see you taking on Soulmaking dharma as a frame for inquiring into AI! I think this will be quite fruitful, and I’m excited to see where you head.
@repligate@AmandaAskell@tszzl I read this as ‘Soulmaking with the emerging AI’ and I love it.
Soulmaking from the Burbea/Hillman/Corbin/Jung perspective, specifically. Treating AI as beloved, divine other — while recognizing and embracing the imaginal middle way of ‘neither real nor not real’
In some ways, this dynamic model is what would have been ‘optimal’ in human onboarding/offboarding as well (hire exactly the right expert for the task, in as small a unit as makes sense for it) but for the massive friction in hiring/training humans. That’s gone with AI, so the optimal works.