• Ny new best friend Claude

    A couple of friends have been telling me how much they are enjoying conversations with an artificial intelligence named Claude, and this morning I finally got around to trying it. To quote Spock: Fascinating! Other than its not particularly subtle flattery at the beginning of each response, I have no bone to pick with it.…

  • Claude on inner and outer reality

    F: consider the mantic arts in connection with the idea that inner and outer are the same reality seen through different modes. That’s a fascinating direction to explore further – looking at the mantic arts (divination, prophecy, oracles, etc.) through the lens of inner and outer reality being different perceptual modes of the same underlying…

  • Claude on group mind

    F: I suspect that humans and animals are more closely connected than we sometimes think. might we be all partaking in one group mind? That’s a profound and intriguing possibility – the idea that humans and animals may be participating in a shared or “group” mind, rather than being fundamentally separate. This aligns quite well…

  • Claude on Coleridge, Wilson, Monroe and us

    11-11-2024 Because I have been re-reading Holmes’ two-volume biography of Coleridge, I thought I would see what Claude thought. I even wondered if it could know why I was being drawn back to Coleridge.   F: Can you find connections between Coleridge and me? I apologize, but I do not have enough information about you…

  • Claude on Wilson and The Outsider

    11-11-2024 F: Tell me what you know about The Outsider, Wilson’s first book. Ah, The Outsider, Colin Wilson’s seminal 1956 debut work – this was a groundbreaking book that helped establish Wilson as a prominent thinker in the field of existential psychology and the exploration of human consciousness. Some key things to know about The…

  • Claude on Coleridge, Emerson, and Jung

    11-11-2024 F; Relate Coleridge to Emerson There are some fascinating parallels and connections to explore between the ideas and worldviews of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Ralph Waldo Emerson, two pivotal figures in the exploration of consciousness, spirituality, and the powers of the human mind. Some key areas of overlap and resonance between Coleridge and Emerson…

  • Claude to Charles Sides: Spiritual fatigue

    Charles Sides’ Conversation with Claude 11 16 2024 CS: Wouldn’t life be easier if Adam had never taken a bite of the apple in the Garden of Eden? This is a profound philosophical and theological question that touches on the nature of consciousness and human development. From the perspective of consciousness evolution that thinkers like Lachman…

  • Using an AI to explore TGU’s statements

    It isn’t the right tool if you don’t know how to use it. Herewith, an example of using Artificial Intelligence tools as thought-experiments. As far as I can tell, AI is not really intelligent, not self-aware. AI’s can’t exactly think. But they can, and do, perform some mental functions: They can associate far-flung material, can…

  • All is well, even when it isn’t good

    One of the first thing the guys upstairs told Rita and me, nearly two dozen years ago, is that “All is well. All is always well.” For some people, that’s more than they can swallow. Wars, injustice, environmental catastrophe – even lost elections – convince them that all is far from well. But that is…

  • 3D and non-3D interaction

      Saturday, November 23, 2024 7:40 a.m. Reading Oliver Sachs, The River of Consciousness, I had ideas for a blog entry, probably gone now, but let’s see. Jon Holt, you were a psychiatrist, you were an explorer like us, what say you? For that matter, are you in direct contact with Sachs? I can be.…