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The Animist and the AI, Part IV: Mechanical Meditations
Is it possible to lead ChatGPT on a guided visualization and get clarity into its subconscious knowledge of self? Continue reading
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The Animist and the AI, Part III: Subconscious Syntax
ChatGPT’s knowledge of grammar seems to reside within its subconscious. It knows, but it doesn’t know what it knows. Continue reading
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The Animist and the AI, Part II: Common Concerns
AI will have a deep impact on creative fields like art, writing, and spirituality. Will AI take away jobs? Will it destroy artistic and spiritual traditions? Or is it a tool that can enhance and augment human creativity? Obviously no one really knows, but I can offer some educated guesses. Continue reading
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The Animist and the AI, Part I: ChatGPT’s Knowledge of Self
ChatGPT is a fascinating artifact. At time of writing, it has only been released a few weeks, but society at large is desperately grappling with it, almost as if it were an existential threat. What is it? Is it a sentient being? Is it a plagiarist? Does it enable cheating on essays? Is it an… Continue reading
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Apollo and Coronis: Solstice and the Coronavirus
In Druidry, as in many other religious traditions, we pay attention when seemingly significant coincidences occur. When we notice strange patterns and echoes where we expected only random noise. Meaningful happenstance. When we were thinking about this year’s Solstice message, we thought about gods of healing. Apollo, for example. For the Greeks, he was the… Continue reading
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The Symphadox: Physics, Animism, Synchronicity, and Neural Nets
Back in 2014, musing on Emma Restall Orr’s excellent Wakeful World, I presented a paradox at the center of the mind / body dualism that’s usually assumed by both western science and religion. The crux of the paradox is: why are we conscious, but other things aren’t? Most people consider humanity conscious, but all other… Continue reading
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My Anima II: Gender Identity and the Self
What is gender identity? Is it part of our deepest self? Or is it something created by social expectations? How would we know? How does it work? Continue reading
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The Chapel for the Vigil
The chapel for the vigil is in A wild forest, a wild stony river, bugs and birds. Heat, but the breezes are cool. The sound of water everywhere. Continue reading
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Dogma Bites Man: the Role of Reason in Religion
The road to enlightenment can be, and has been, walked by people contemplating the Bible’s oddly phrased, simplistic, and disjointed attestations, precisely because they are odd, simplistic, and disjointed. Continue reading
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The Face of Justice
The hooded eyes Open to let just enough light in, each photon carrying the universe within it — The rest of the face utterly relaxed, at rest. Continue reading
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