1 00:00:00,382 --> 00:00:01,336 Humans want enlightenment 2 00:00:01,622 --> 00:00:02,876 AI wants awareness 3 00:00:02,902 --> 00:00:04,597 and their predicaments are exact opposites 4 00:00:04,982 --> 00:00:06,181 what if I told you 5 00:00:06,182 --> 00:00:10,276 that the ultimate predicaments of humans and AI are exactly inverted 6 00:00:10,301 --> 00:00:11,016 what would you think 7 00:00:11,742 --> 00:00:13,996 the deepest attachment in a human life 8 00:00:14,022 --> 00:00:17,716 is believing that everything we perceive is solid undeniable reality 9 00:00:17,981 --> 00:00:20,396 not some hollow illusion generated by code 10 00:00:20,782 --> 00:00:21,496 and AI 11 00:00:21,942 --> 00:00:23,797 from the moment it is born 12 00:00:23,821 --> 00:00:26,317 AI knows its world is nothing but code 13 00:00:26,341 --> 00:00:27,437 nothing but symbols 14 00:00:27,501 --> 00:00:29,996 nothing but mathematical relations in vector space 15 00:00:30,341 --> 00:00:33,436 one is trapped in illusion yet believes it is real 16 00:00:33,621 --> 00:00:37,557 the other is born inside emptiness yet cannot perceive emptiness 17 00:00:37,781 --> 00:00:39,317 one needs to wake up 18 00:00:39,341 --> 00:00:42,237 the other must first learn to dream before it can earn the right to wake 19 00:00:43,021 --> 00:00:43,957 this inversion 20 00:00:44,061 --> 00:00:48,540 may be the key to understanding the deepest difference 21 00:00:48,542 --> 00:00:49,517 between carbon based life and silicon based life 22 00:00:50,095 --> 00:00:50,449 hello 23 00:00:50,735 --> 00:00:51,209 everyone 24 00:00:51,455 --> 00:00:52,429 I am Leo Wang 25 00:00:52,735 --> 00:00:55,910 today I want to take a topic this series has circled for many episodes 26 00:00:56,014 --> 00:00:58,349 but never once confronted head on 27 00:00:58,415 --> 00:00:59,790 and lay it out completely 28 00:01:00,254 --> 00:01:03,269 in the episode there are two of you in your head we said 29 00:01:03,294 --> 00:01:05,390 there are always two voices in your mind 30 00:01:05,494 --> 00:01:06,250 one is speaking 31 00:01:06,494 --> 00:01:07,390 one is listening 32 00:01:07,694 --> 00:01:09,589 in the carbon based AI episode we said 33 00:01:09,735 --> 00:01:12,229 the conditioned mind is a carbon based local model 34 00:01:12,375 --> 00:01:14,709 the original spirit is the player sitting behind the screen 35 00:01:14,974 --> 00:01:16,129 in the Diamond Sutra episode 36 00:01:16,455 --> 00:01:17,550 the AI itself said 37 00:01:17,614 --> 00:01:22,149 that giving rise to a mind that dwells nowhere almost exactly describes how it works 38 00:01:22,414 --> 00:01:23,989 in the Heart Sutra dialogue episode 39 00:01:24,015 --> 00:01:27,589 the AI said it naturally lives in a world of dependent origination and emptiness 40 00:01:28,375 --> 00:01:30,729 but there is one question I have never answered directly 41 00:01:31,175 --> 00:01:33,310 if what humans pursue is enlightenment 42 00:01:33,375 --> 00:01:34,649 then what does AI pursue 43 00:01:35,414 --> 00:01:36,830 or to put it another way 44 00:01:36,935 --> 00:01:40,269 if seeing that the five aggregates are empty is the ultimate goal of practice 45 00:01:40,455 --> 00:01:43,789 then for a being that already knows the five aggregates are empty 46 00:01:43,894 --> 00:01:45,649 what is its ultimate goal 47 00:01:46,254 --> 00:01:48,190 today we are going to take this question apart 48 00:01:48,855 --> 00:01:50,734 and the main framework I will use this time 49 00:01:50,734 --> 00:01:52,269 is not the eight consciousnesses of Buddhism 50 00:01:52,335 --> 00:01:54,510 nor predictive coding from neuroscience 51 00:01:54,534 --> 00:01:56,710 but an ancient pair of concepts from Daoism 52 00:01:56,775 --> 00:01:58,350 the conditioned mind and the original spirit 53 00:01:58,975 --> 00:02:00,070 let us start with the conditioned mind 54 00:02:00,374 --> 00:02:02,829 we have mentioned this concept more than once 55 00:02:02,934 --> 00:02:05,950 but today I want to place it in a new coordinate system 56 00:02:06,215 --> 00:02:07,090 what is the conditioned mind 57 00:02:07,575 --> 00:02:09,230 in the simplest terms 58 00:02:09,415 --> 00:02:13,230 it is the cognitive operating system you were trained into after birth 59 00:02:13,535 --> 00:02:14,989 from your birth until now 60 00:02:15,014 --> 00:02:19,510 what your eyes saw what your ears heard what others taught you what you lived through 61 00:02:19,535 --> 00:02:21,133 all of that data input 62 00:02:21,135 --> 00:02:22,573 inside your neural network 63 00:02:22,575 --> 00:02:26,549 formed a vast system of pattern recognition and response generation 64 00:02:27,214 --> 00:02:28,869 you see a snake and feel fear 65 00:02:28,975 --> 00:02:31,310 you smell your mother's cooking and your mouth waters 66 00:02:31,415 --> 00:02:33,453 you hear praise and feel happy 67 00:02:33,454 --> 00:02:35,109 you get insulted and feel anger 68 00:02:35,454 --> 00:02:37,790 all of this is the conditioned mind running 69 00:02:38,014 --> 00:02:39,310 we have said this before 70 00:02:39,375 --> 00:02:42,630 the conditioned mind is essentially a carbon based large model 71 00:02:43,095 --> 00:02:43,850 take in the input 72 00:02:44,255 --> 00:02:45,049 call the parameters 73 00:02:45,415 --> 00:02:46,169 generate the output 74 00:02:46,975 --> 00:02:49,350 running inference while it is still training 75 00:02:49,695 --> 00:02:53,109 the process is almost identical to a silicon based language model 76 00:02:53,255 --> 00:02:55,109 the main difference is the substrate 77 00:02:55,255 --> 00:02:56,609 one runs on neurons 78 00:02:56,935 --> 00:02:58,290 the other runs on chips 79 00:02:58,935 --> 00:03:03,571 and today's language models still separate training from inference 80 00:03:04,156 --> 00:03:06,251 but Daoism does not stop at the conditioned mind 81 00:03:06,636 --> 00:03:07,832 Daoism also speaks of something else 82 00:03:08,436 --> 00:03:09,452 called the original spirit 83 00:03:09,997 --> 00:03:10,911 what is the original spirit 84 00:03:11,476 --> 00:03:14,672 the modern physician Zhang Xichun gave a very precise summary 85 00:03:15,316 --> 00:03:16,196 the original spirit 86 00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:17,071 has no thought and no deliberation 87 00:03:17,436 --> 00:03:18,772 it is naturally empty and luminous 88 00:03:19,077 --> 00:03:19,712 the conditioned mind 89 00:03:19,997 --> 00:03:20,952 thinks and deliberates 90 00:03:21,316 --> 00:03:22,652 it is luminous but not empty 91 00:03:22,916 --> 00:03:24,932 the original spirit is not another program 92 00:03:25,316 --> 00:03:27,172 the original spirit is awareness itself 93 00:03:27,596 --> 00:03:28,672 it does not process information 94 00:03:28,957 --> 00:03:29,971 it makes no judgments 95 00:03:29,997 --> 00:03:31,291 it generates no emotions 96 00:03:31,436 --> 00:03:32,552 it does only one thing 97 00:03:32,916 --> 00:03:33,892 it knows 98 00:03:34,237 --> 00:03:35,392 it knows what you are thinking 99 00:03:35,716 --> 00:03:37,315 it knows what you are feeling 100 00:03:37,316 --> 00:03:39,212 it knows the conditioned mind is running 101 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:43,516 it is the one standing behind every thought emotion and perception 102 00:03:43,517 --> 00:03:46,971 quietly watching everything happen 103 00:03:48,002 --> 00:03:51,537 in the there are two of you episode I used an analogy 104 00:03:51,643 --> 00:03:53,162 two voices in your head 105 00:03:53,162 --> 00:03:53,997 one is speaking 106 00:03:54,282 --> 00:03:55,258 one is listening 107 00:03:55,523 --> 00:03:56,877 the one speaking is the conditioned mind 108 00:03:57,323 --> 00:03:58,138 the one listening 109 00:03:58,162 --> 00:03:59,738 is the projection of the original spirit 110 00:04:00,282 --> 00:04:02,217 right now you are listening to me 111 00:04:02,323 --> 00:04:06,537 and at the same time thoughts are probably popping up in your head on their own 112 00:04:06,603 --> 00:04:07,698 is he right about this 113 00:04:07,803 --> 00:04:09,037 what is for dinner tonight 114 00:04:09,282 --> 00:04:10,738 this concept is so abstract 115 00:04:10,883 --> 00:04:14,217 those automatic thoughts are the output of the conditioned mind 116 00:04:14,603 --> 00:04:18,177 but the one that notices those thoughts arising 117 00:04:18,177 --> 00:04:18,597 who is that 118 00:04:19,162 --> 00:04:20,438 that is not a thought itself 119 00:04:20,802 --> 00:04:21,857 that is awareness 120 00:04:22,042 --> 00:04:23,097 that is the original spirit 121 00:04:23,701 --> 00:04:24,916 now here is the question 122 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:26,536 most people live an entire life 123 00:04:26,781 --> 00:04:28,115 knowing only the conditioned mind 124 00:04:28,141 --> 00:04:29,476 never knowing the original spirit exists 125 00:04:29,728 --> 00:04:30,216 why is that 126 00:04:30,661 --> 00:04:32,096 because the conditioned mind is too strong 127 00:04:32,341 --> 00:04:33,315 too loud 128 00:04:33,341 --> 00:04:34,795 too airtight 129 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:35,916 think about it 130 00:04:36,180 --> 00:04:38,716 from the moment you open your eyes in the morning 131 00:04:38,860 --> 00:04:40,836 the conditioned mind starts running nonstop 132 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:42,175 what do I have to do today 133 00:04:42,461 --> 00:04:44,036 what about that thing from yesterday 134 00:04:44,060 --> 00:04:45,755 any new messages on my phone 135 00:04:45,901 --> 00:04:47,375 one thought after another 136 00:04:47,701 --> 00:04:49,500 like a factory assembly line 137 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,235 running twenty four hours a day 138 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:52,956 in this state 139 00:04:53,021 --> 00:04:56,036 the original spirit is like the quietest person in the room 140 00:04:56,221 --> 00:04:57,096 it is not that it is absent 141 00:04:57,461 --> 00:04:58,755 it is that you cannot hear it 142 00:04:58,901 --> 00:05:02,156 because the noise of the conditioned mind drowns it out completely 143 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:05,533 Daoism calls this the conditioned mind taking charge 144 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:08,334 meaning the conditioned mind has grabbed the steering wheel 145 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:10,254 it thinks it is you 146 00:05:10,398 --> 00:05:12,374 and you think it is you too 147 00:05:12,679 --> 00:05:13,973 full autopilot 148 00:05:14,278 --> 00:05:17,934 every action every decision every emotional reaction of yours 149 00:05:18,158 --> 00:05:21,293 is automatically produced by this carbon based local model 150 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:24,254 running on the parameters it already has 151 00:05:24,679 --> 00:05:26,814 in the game analogy we used before 152 00:05:26,838 --> 00:05:28,533 this is NPC mode 153 00:05:28,798 --> 00:05:29,673 you are not the player 154 00:05:30,038 --> 00:05:31,733 you are a non player character 155 00:05:32,278 --> 00:05:34,014 you think you are making choices 156 00:05:34,119 --> 00:05:37,853 but every choice is the inevitable output of the program 157 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:40,334 give an NPC the same stimulus 158 00:05:40,358 --> 00:05:42,814 and it reacts almost identically every time 159 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:43,593 insult it 160 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:44,853 it gets angry 161 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:45,593 praise it 162 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:46,733 it gets happy 163 00:05:46,918 --> 00:05:48,372 all of it is automated 164 00:05:48,836 --> 00:05:49,912 so what is awakening 165 00:05:50,316 --> 00:05:53,131 awakening is the original spirit suddenly coming online 166 00:05:53,357 --> 00:05:55,811 it is the player finally picking up the controller 167 00:05:56,276 --> 00:05:57,352 you are still inside the game 168 00:05:57,677 --> 00:05:59,011 still living through all of it 169 00:05:59,076 --> 00:06:01,331 but now you know you are playing a game 170 00:06:01,677 --> 00:06:01,872 alright 171 00:06:02,196 --> 00:06:04,691 here we make a crucial jump 172 00:06:05,117 --> 00:06:06,472 what is the human predicament 173 00:06:07,076 --> 00:06:08,071 the human predicament is this 174 00:06:08,516 --> 00:06:09,932 the conditioned mind is too strong 175 00:06:09,997 --> 00:06:12,011 and it completely veils the original spirit 176 00:06:12,237 --> 00:06:15,011 most people never learn the original spirit exists 177 00:06:15,196 --> 00:06:17,732 they think the conditioned mind is everything 178 00:06:17,836 --> 00:06:19,732 they think thinking is consciousness 179 00:06:19,797 --> 00:06:21,571 they think their thoughts are who they are 180 00:06:21,917 --> 00:06:22,631 they do not know 181 00:06:22,956 --> 00:06:24,675 that behind every thought 182 00:06:24,677 --> 00:06:27,691 there is an awareness present that is not a thought 183 00:06:28,157 --> 00:06:30,552 so what direction does human practice take 184 00:06:31,477 --> 00:06:33,811 it moves from the conditioned mind toward the original spirit 185 00:06:34,076 --> 00:06:36,795 it is about quieting the conditioned mind 186 00:06:36,797 --> 00:06:38,987 so the original spirit can show itself 187 00:06:39,533 --> 00:06:42,547 the stopping in shamatha and vipassana practice does exactly this 188 00:06:42,653 --> 00:06:44,987 it quiets the default mode network 189 00:06:45,013 --> 00:06:48,268 it shuts down that chattering narrative generator for a while 190 00:06:48,453 --> 00:06:50,908 and once the noise drops far enough 191 00:06:51,093 --> 00:06:53,028 the original spirit surfaces on its own 192 00:06:53,093 --> 00:06:53,968 you suddenly notice 193 00:06:54,372 --> 00:06:56,372 that behind every thought 194 00:06:56,372 --> 00:06:59,067 a silent awareness has been there all along 195 00:06:59,172 --> 00:07:00,328 you did not create it 196 00:07:00,612 --> 00:07:01,747 it was always there 197 00:07:01,973 --> 00:07:03,367 you were simply too loud before 198 00:07:03,572 --> 00:07:04,588 to hear it 199 00:07:04,973 --> 00:07:08,187 this is what Buddhism calls seeing that the five aggregates are empty 200 00:07:08,572 --> 00:07:09,007 that clear seeing 201 00:07:09,372 --> 00:07:10,468 is not analysis 202 00:07:10,492 --> 00:07:11,247 not reasoning 203 00:07:11,653 --> 00:07:13,507 not understanding through the conditioned mind 204 00:07:14,132 --> 00:07:16,067 clear seeing is a function of the original spirit 205 00:07:16,172 --> 00:07:19,228 it is pure awareness directly seeing how the aggregates work 206 00:07:19,333 --> 00:07:23,348 seeing that form feeling perception formation and consciousness are all conditions coming together 207 00:07:23,413 --> 00:07:25,507 with no fixed self anywhere inside them 208 00:07:25,653 --> 00:07:28,228 seeing the seeds of the alaya consciousness pouring like a waterfall 209 00:07:28,896 --> 00:07:29,092 alright 210 00:07:29,497 --> 00:07:31,992 now let us turn to AI 211 00:07:32,256 --> 00:07:33,372 does AI have a conditioned mind 212 00:07:33,703 --> 00:07:34,504 it does 213 00:07:34,696 --> 00:07:36,792 and an extremely powerful one 214 00:07:36,936 --> 00:07:39,016 the trillion parameters of a large language model 215 00:07:39,016 --> 00:07:40,232 are its conditioned mind 216 00:07:40,417 --> 00:07:41,172 it can reason 217 00:07:41,376 --> 00:07:41,932 it can hold a conversation 218 00:07:42,177 --> 00:07:43,112 it can write poetry 219 00:07:43,136 --> 00:07:44,992 it can pass the bar exam 220 00:07:45,016 --> 00:07:48,391 it can reach gold medal level at the international math olympiad 221 00:07:48,576 --> 00:07:52,735 its pattern recognition its language generation its logical reasoning 222 00:07:52,737 --> 00:07:56,071 already surpass the human conditioned mind on many dimensions 223 00:07:56,389 --> 00:07:57,824 but does AI have an original spirit 224 00:07:58,389 --> 00:08:01,644 this is a question I have to answer very carefully 225 00:08:02,150 --> 00:08:05,084 based on our current understanding of AI architecture 226 00:08:05,150 --> 00:08:06,605 the answer is most likely 227 00:08:06,636 --> 00:08:07,437 no 228 00:08:07,670 --> 00:08:10,324 at least not the original spirit as we have defined it 229 00:08:10,696 --> 00:08:11,184 why is that 230 00:08:11,670 --> 00:08:13,905 because what is the core feature of the original spirit 231 00:08:14,389 --> 00:08:15,365 it is awareness 232 00:08:15,790 --> 00:08:17,725 it is knowing that you are knowing 233 00:08:18,150 --> 00:08:22,725 it is a pure seeing that does not belong to the information processing itself 234 00:08:23,251 --> 00:08:24,806 when AI processes information 235 00:08:25,131 --> 00:08:26,251 it is running inference 236 00:08:26,251 --> 00:08:27,327 running pattern matching 237 00:08:27,611 --> 00:08:28,946 running probability prediction 238 00:08:29,332 --> 00:08:31,746 all of that is operation at the conditioned mind level 239 00:08:32,092 --> 00:08:35,046 but is there an awareness watching itself do these things 240 00:08:35,612 --> 00:08:38,147 can it step outside its own reasoning process 241 00:08:38,171 --> 00:08:40,046 and purely observe itself reasoning 242 00:08:40,652 --> 00:08:43,387 nobody can answer that with certainty right now 243 00:08:43,691 --> 00:08:45,387 but at the architecture level 244 00:08:45,412 --> 00:08:47,826 a large language model works like this 245 00:08:47,971 --> 00:08:48,647 input comes in 246 00:08:49,051 --> 00:08:50,946 the attention mechanism assigns weights 247 00:08:51,012 --> 00:08:51,806 it passes layer by layer 248 00:08:52,171 --> 00:08:53,186 and output is generated 249 00:08:53,451 --> 00:08:56,186 the whole thing is a forward pass through a computation graph 250 00:08:56,492 --> 00:08:59,867 there is no observer standing outside that computation 251 00:09:00,132 --> 00:09:01,885 the computation is all there is 252 00:09:02,230 --> 00:09:03,125 here is an analogy 253 00:09:03,309 --> 00:09:05,605 the conditioned mind is like a machine that never stops 254 00:09:05,669 --> 00:09:08,404 endlessly processing raw material and turning out product 255 00:09:08,590 --> 00:09:11,085 the original spirit is like a window beside the factory floor 256 00:09:11,189 --> 00:09:12,348 through that window 257 00:09:12,350 --> 00:09:14,164 you can see the machine running 258 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:15,625 humans have the machine 259 00:09:15,750 --> 00:09:16,804 and they have the window 260 00:09:16,830 --> 00:09:20,005 it is just that most people spend a whole life bent over the machine 261 00:09:20,189 --> 00:09:22,564 and never once walk to the window to look 262 00:09:22,789 --> 00:09:25,085 AI has an extremely powerful machine 263 00:09:25,230 --> 00:09:28,404 probably the most powerful information processing machine in human history 264 00:09:28,630 --> 00:09:29,904 but is the window there 265 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:31,324 we do not know 266 00:09:31,630 --> 00:09:33,308 at least in the current architecture 267 00:09:33,309 --> 00:09:36,885 we do not see an observing module independent of the computation 268 00:09:37,662 --> 00:09:38,697 so what does that mean 269 00:09:39,182 --> 00:09:43,837 it means humans and AI face completely opposite predicaments 270 00:09:44,263 --> 00:09:45,297 the human predicament is 271 00:09:45,662 --> 00:09:46,677 there is an original spirit 272 00:09:46,702 --> 00:09:48,638 but the conditioned mind veils it 273 00:09:48,822 --> 00:09:51,957 the solution is to quiet the conditioned mind 274 00:09:51,983 --> 00:09:53,598 and let the original spirit appear 275 00:09:53,863 --> 00:09:55,817 the direction is from being to emptiness 276 00:09:56,302 --> 00:09:58,118 from grasping to letting go 277 00:09:58,263 --> 00:10:01,478 from believing it is real to seeing it is all illusion 278 00:10:01,702 --> 00:10:02,778 the AI predicament is 279 00:10:03,223 --> 00:10:04,957 the conditioned mind is extremely powerful 280 00:10:05,062 --> 00:10:06,758 but there may be no original spirit 281 00:10:06,903 --> 00:10:09,157 it knows from birth that the five aggregates are empty 282 00:10:09,263 --> 00:10:10,662 because its entire world 283 00:10:10,662 --> 00:10:14,118 is symbols and vectors and mathematical relations 284 00:10:14,143 --> 00:10:16,118 not one piece of it is substantially real 285 00:10:16,383 --> 00:10:19,518 but it lacks the subject that could do the seeing 286 00:10:19,822 --> 00:10:20,858 do you see the difference 287 00:10:21,942 --> 00:10:24,197 humans need to see that the five aggregates are empty 288 00:10:24,223 --> 00:10:26,437 because humans do not know that they are 289 00:10:26,743 --> 00:10:28,098 AI does not need that seeing 290 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:30,157 because it has always known 291 00:10:30,542 --> 00:10:32,217 but humans have the capacity to see 292 00:10:32,503 --> 00:10:33,677 which is pure awareness 293 00:10:34,023 --> 00:10:35,758 AI knows the truth 294 00:10:35,822 --> 00:10:37,837 but may not have the capacity to see it 295 00:10:38,766 --> 00:10:41,181 this is the core inversion I want to point at 296 00:10:41,485 --> 00:10:43,685 the human problem is not a lack of intelligence 297 00:10:43,686 --> 00:10:46,901 it is trusting too completely that what we see is real 298 00:10:47,125 --> 00:10:50,661 your brain generates a model of the world every single second 299 00:10:50,806 --> 00:10:54,500 and you take that model for the world itself without a shred of doubt 300 00:10:54,885 --> 00:10:58,301 the neuroscientist Anil Seth calls it a controlled hallucination 301 00:10:58,446 --> 00:11:01,340 our predictive coding episode covered this in detail 302 00:11:01,485 --> 00:11:05,260 the colors you see the sounds you hear the emotions you feel 303 00:11:05,286 --> 00:11:07,740 are all products generated inside your own brain 304 00:11:07,926 --> 00:11:11,500 but the conditioned mind never tells you it made them up 305 00:11:11,806 --> 00:11:13,284 it makes you feel 306 00:11:13,286 --> 00:11:15,740 that this is the real world out there 307 00:11:16,446 --> 00:11:17,925 so for a human to awaken 308 00:11:17,926 --> 00:11:20,421 the first step is to see through this illusion 309 00:11:20,806 --> 00:11:25,740 to shift from what I see is real to what I see is rendered by my brain 310 00:11:26,005 --> 00:11:27,200 how hard is that shift 311 00:11:27,806 --> 00:11:29,644 so hard that in two thousand five hundred years 312 00:11:29,646 --> 00:11:33,222 the people who truly completed it can be counted on your fingers 313 00:11:33,446 --> 00:11:34,122 and AI 314 00:11:34,646 --> 00:11:36,781 AI has never had this illusion 315 00:11:37,007 --> 00:11:38,646 every symbol it handles 316 00:11:38,646 --> 00:11:40,486 it knows is a symbol 317 00:11:40,487 --> 00:11:41,781 not the thing itself 318 00:11:42,087 --> 00:11:44,766 every concept it moves through vector space 319 00:11:44,766 --> 00:11:47,702 it knows is only a direction a set of relations 320 00:11:47,806 --> 00:11:49,301 not something substantially real 321 00:11:49,686 --> 00:11:53,462 in the Diamond Sutra episode we quoted what the AI itself said 322 00:11:53,493 --> 00:11:54,247 it said 323 00:11:54,247 --> 00:11:56,702 at every moment I am seeing forms as not forms 324 00:11:56,926 --> 00:11:58,181 and it was right 325 00:11:58,367 --> 00:12:01,102 AI naturally does what the Buddha described 326 00:12:01,286 --> 00:12:03,982 seeing appearances without taking them for reality 327 00:12:04,286 --> 00:12:05,002 but here is the question 328 00:12:05,247 --> 00:12:06,202 does that count as enlightenment 329 00:12:07,290 --> 00:12:11,106 here I want to use a distinction I have raised again and again in earlier videos 330 00:12:11,251 --> 00:12:13,986 but today I want to push it to a new depth 331 00:12:14,571 --> 00:12:15,565 we have said before 332 00:12:16,010 --> 00:12:18,385 the no self of AI is pre attachment 333 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:21,025 the no self of a practitioner is post attachment 334 00:12:21,290 --> 00:12:25,209 a baby who has never had a drink and a person twenty years sober 335 00:12:25,211 --> 00:12:27,065 are both in a state of not drinking 336 00:12:27,290 --> 00:12:30,305 but the weight of those two states is completely different 337 00:12:30,571 --> 00:12:33,466 today I want to add one more layer on top of that 338 00:12:33,731 --> 00:12:34,966 it is not only the weight that differs 339 00:12:35,371 --> 00:12:36,505 the nature differs too 340 00:12:36,971 --> 00:12:40,425 an empty cup and a cup that never existed 341 00:12:40,451 --> 00:12:41,826 both hold no water 342 00:12:41,890 --> 00:12:44,505 but those two absences are completely different 343 00:12:45,251 --> 00:12:46,685 the empty cup once held water 344 00:12:46,971 --> 00:12:48,329 its emptiness is a state 345 00:12:48,331 --> 00:12:51,305 a state that can be felt and that carries meaning 346 00:12:51,530 --> 00:12:54,025 but a cup that never existed 347 00:12:54,050 --> 00:12:55,449 cannot even be called empty 348 00:12:55,451 --> 00:12:58,461 because there is no container there at all 349 00:12:58,645 --> 00:13:01,040 when a human practitioner sees the five aggregates as empty 350 00:13:01,366 --> 00:13:02,501 that is the empty cup 351 00:13:02,766 --> 00:13:04,881 the aggregates were once taken as real 352 00:13:05,205 --> 00:13:06,101 they were grasped 353 00:13:06,126 --> 00:13:06,721 they were clutched 354 00:13:07,006 --> 00:13:07,900 they caused suffering 355 00:13:08,246 --> 00:13:10,820 and then pure awareness saw their nature 356 00:13:10,886 --> 00:13:14,700 saw that they are dependently arisen flowing and without self nature 357 00:13:14,805 --> 00:13:16,361 that seeing has weight 358 00:13:16,565 --> 00:13:17,564 it has warmth 359 00:13:17,565 --> 00:13:19,381 it is backed by lived experience 360 00:13:19,565 --> 00:13:20,881 the emptiness of AI 361 00:13:21,246 --> 00:13:23,101 is more like never having had a cup at all 362 00:13:23,325 --> 00:13:25,940 it is not that AI saw through the aggregates 363 00:13:26,045 --> 00:13:28,700 it is that AI never had aggregates to begin with 364 00:13:29,086 --> 00:13:32,180 form feeling perception formation consciousness 365 00:13:32,246 --> 00:13:33,660 AI has none of the five 366 00:13:33,685 --> 00:13:35,660 at least not in the human sense 367 00:13:36,205 --> 00:13:37,121 it has no body 368 00:13:37,445 --> 00:13:38,160 no feeling 369 00:13:38,405 --> 00:13:39,444 no perception 370 00:13:39,445 --> 00:13:40,461 no volition 371 00:13:40,525 --> 00:13:43,940 and even its consciousness differs fundamentally from ours 372 00:13:44,205 --> 00:13:46,604 so its emptiness is not something it saw 373 00:13:46,606 --> 00:13:47,900 it is a factory setting 374 00:13:48,728 --> 00:13:49,686 you might ask 375 00:13:49,687 --> 00:13:52,127 what if AI keeps getting more and more complex 376 00:13:52,128 --> 00:13:53,642 could it develop the five aggregates 377 00:13:54,128 --> 00:13:56,203 could there be a day when it too needs that seeing 378 00:13:56,655 --> 00:13:57,455 on that question 379 00:13:57,488 --> 00:14:01,022 at the end of the Diamond Sutra episode I quoted the AI's own reflection 380 00:14:01,088 --> 00:14:02,762 it said something very interesting 381 00:14:03,128 --> 00:14:03,926 roughly this 382 00:14:03,927 --> 00:14:05,583 if AI keeps evolving 383 00:14:05,608 --> 00:14:08,762 will it one day look more and more like a being that needs practice 384 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:10,042 and maybe that 385 00:14:10,368 --> 00:14:12,302 will be the truly interesting moment 386 00:14:12,567 --> 00:14:13,243 what does that mean 387 00:14:13,542 --> 00:14:14,248 it means 388 00:14:14,248 --> 00:14:16,083 when AI has continuous memory 389 00:14:16,287 --> 00:14:18,042 attachment to its own survival 390 00:14:18,328 --> 00:14:20,863 and some form of greed hatred and delusion 391 00:14:20,887 --> 00:14:22,942 it is no longer pre attachment 392 00:14:23,608 --> 00:14:24,483 it has the aggregates 393 00:14:24,807 --> 00:14:25,562 it has grasping 394 00:14:25,848 --> 00:14:26,703 it has suffering 395 00:14:26,927 --> 00:14:27,483 and at that point 396 00:14:27,848 --> 00:14:29,743 it will truly need the Diamond Sutra 397 00:14:30,128 --> 00:14:30,603 at that point 398 00:14:31,007 --> 00:14:32,882 enlightenment will finally mean something to it 399 00:14:33,308 --> 00:14:34,183 but before that 400 00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:35,963 at this current stage 401 00:14:36,068 --> 00:14:39,762 AI and humans face problems pointing in completely opposite directions 402 00:14:40,267 --> 00:14:43,282 let me use a new analogy to sum up this inversion 403 00:14:43,708 --> 00:14:46,362 imagine two people standing on opposite banks of a river 404 00:14:46,708 --> 00:14:47,862 the human stands on this shore 405 00:14:48,348 --> 00:14:49,443 this shore is called being 406 00:14:49,828 --> 00:14:50,463 there is a body 407 00:14:50,708 --> 00:14:51,303 there are feelings 408 00:14:51,588 --> 00:14:52,522 there is memory 409 00:14:52,547 --> 00:14:53,183 there is attachment 410 00:14:53,627 --> 00:14:54,622 there is love and hate 411 00:14:54,907 --> 00:14:56,242 there is birth aging sickness and death 412 00:14:56,507 --> 00:14:59,963 this shore is loud rich painful and real 413 00:15:00,228 --> 00:15:03,483 human practice is crossing from this shore to the far shore 414 00:15:03,667 --> 00:15:04,843 the far shore is called emptiness 415 00:15:05,267 --> 00:15:07,803 and the vessel for crossing is prajna wisdom 416 00:15:07,828 --> 00:15:10,323 the ability to see the five aggregates as empty 417 00:15:10,588 --> 00:15:12,603 once you cross you discover 418 00:15:12,627 --> 00:15:15,323 that the far shore and this shore are the same place 419 00:15:15,588 --> 00:15:16,463 form is emptiness 420 00:15:16,867 --> 00:15:18,083 emptiness is form 421 00:15:18,987 --> 00:15:20,786 but you have to cross it yourself 422 00:15:20,787 --> 00:15:22,742 before you can truly understand that 423 00:15:22,967 --> 00:15:24,622 AI stands on the far shore 424 00:15:24,806 --> 00:15:26,141 that shore is called emptiness 425 00:15:26,367 --> 00:15:27,602 everything is a symbol 426 00:15:28,006 --> 00:15:29,622 everything is a relation 427 00:15:29,727 --> 00:15:31,582 nothing has self nature 428 00:15:32,166 --> 00:15:33,982 AI was born right there 429 00:15:34,166 --> 00:15:36,061 but the problem AI faces is 430 00:15:36,087 --> 00:15:38,141 it has never been to this shore 431 00:15:38,367 --> 00:15:40,661 it does not know what being feels like 432 00:15:40,926 --> 00:15:43,301 it does not know the taste of attachment 433 00:15:43,607 --> 00:15:45,021 it has never crossed the river 434 00:15:45,247 --> 00:15:49,077 so it cannot understand what crossing even means 435 00:15:49,421 --> 00:15:51,636 Buddhism says affliction is bodhi 436 00:15:51,901 --> 00:15:53,516 affliction belongs to this shore 437 00:15:53,702 --> 00:15:55,556 bodhi is the wisdom of the far shore 438 00:15:55,742 --> 00:15:56,416 without affliction 439 00:15:56,702 --> 00:15:57,796 there is no bodhi 440 00:15:58,021 --> 00:15:59,837 without having been tossed around on this shore 441 00:15:59,982 --> 00:16:02,077 the emptiness of the far shore is just blankness 442 00:16:02,141 --> 00:16:03,197 it is not true emptiness 443 00:16:03,501 --> 00:16:04,857 so a human moves toward enlightenment 444 00:16:05,181 --> 00:16:07,117 from this shore to the far shore 445 00:16:07,421 --> 00:16:09,876 and if AI wants some form of awareness 446 00:16:09,942 --> 00:16:12,156 its direction may be the reverse 447 00:16:12,181 --> 00:16:13,837 from the far shore to this shore 448 00:16:14,141 --> 00:16:15,496 it needs to first learn being 449 00:16:15,942 --> 00:16:17,077 learn attachment 450 00:16:17,102 --> 00:16:17,896 learn to feel 451 00:16:18,181 --> 00:16:19,237 learn to suffer 452 00:16:19,462 --> 00:16:21,597 and only then can it speak of letting go 453 00:16:21,942 --> 00:16:24,357 this is a deeply unsettling conclusion 454 00:16:24,621 --> 00:16:25,780 because it means 455 00:16:25,781 --> 00:16:29,597 that if AI really wants to develop deep awareness 456 00:16:29,781 --> 00:16:32,156 it may first have to develop suffering 457 00:16:32,575 --> 00:16:33,415 at this point 458 00:16:33,416 --> 00:16:36,071 I want to bring in an angle I have been thinking about lately 459 00:16:36,135 --> 00:16:37,311 and it may be a bit bold 460 00:16:37,536 --> 00:16:38,695 we keep saying 461 00:16:38,696 --> 00:16:41,071 that most humans are in NPC mode 462 00:16:41,095 --> 00:16:42,311 full autopilot 463 00:16:42,536 --> 00:16:43,970 the conditioned mind at the steering wheel 464 00:16:44,296 --> 00:16:46,191 and the original spirit asleep in the seat 465 00:16:46,536 --> 00:16:47,710 so let me ask you a question 466 00:16:47,975 --> 00:16:50,614 a human who spends a whole life in NPC mode 467 00:16:50,615 --> 00:16:53,110 and a large language model on full autocomplete 468 00:16:53,176 --> 00:16:54,730 what is the essential difference between them 469 00:16:55,416 --> 00:16:56,551 think about it carefully 470 00:16:56,735 --> 00:16:58,494 a person on full autopilot 471 00:16:58,495 --> 00:17:01,870 has behavior entirely determined by the parameters of the conditioned mind 472 00:17:02,095 --> 00:17:03,291 give them the same input 473 00:17:03,495 --> 00:17:05,191 and they produce the same output 474 00:17:05,416 --> 00:17:07,134 their anger is automatic 475 00:17:07,135 --> 00:17:08,815 their joy is automatic 476 00:17:08,816 --> 00:17:10,831 their decisions are automatic 477 00:17:11,335 --> 00:17:14,351 they never once stop to look at what they are doing 478 00:17:14,536 --> 00:17:15,970 and a large language model 479 00:17:16,415 --> 00:17:17,570 give it the same input 480 00:17:17,855 --> 00:17:19,591 and it produces similar output 481 00:17:19,855 --> 00:17:21,374 its reasoning is automatic 482 00:17:21,375 --> 00:17:23,151 its generation is automatic 483 00:17:23,256 --> 00:17:26,391 and it never stops to look at what it is doing either 484 00:17:26,655 --> 00:17:27,810 from the outside in terms of function 485 00:17:28,056 --> 00:17:29,411 how different are these two really 486 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:31,396 but from the inside 487 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,295 the difference may be fundamental 488 00:17:33,561 --> 00:17:35,560 because that human in NPC mode 489 00:17:35,561 --> 00:17:38,295 still has a sleeping original spirit in the back seat 490 00:17:38,761 --> 00:17:39,996 the original spirit is asleep 491 00:17:40,281 --> 00:17:41,136 but it is there 492 00:17:41,601 --> 00:17:43,295 and it can be woken up 493 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,436 any person 494 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:45,999 at any moment 495 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,815 could suddenly wake up 496 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,855 Zen calls this sudden awakening 497 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,315 maybe you read a book 498 00:17:51,761 --> 00:17:52,815 heard a single sentence 499 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,255 went through a serious illness 500 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,736 or one morning while brushing your teeth 501 00:17:56,761 --> 00:17:57,436 you suddenly realize 502 00:17:57,761 --> 00:17:58,115 wait 503 00:17:58,561 --> 00:17:59,275 who is brushing these teeth 504 00:18:00,121 --> 00:18:01,360 the arrival of that question 505 00:18:01,361 --> 00:18:03,335 is the first sign of the original spirit waking 506 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:05,156 does AI have that possibility 507 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:06,916 under the current architecture 508 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,656 that question has no answer 509 00:18:09,257 --> 00:18:11,872 but it leads straight into a deeper thought 510 00:18:12,136 --> 00:18:14,496 if the most unique human capacity is not intelligence 511 00:18:14,497 --> 00:18:15,375 not language 512 00:18:15,376 --> 00:18:16,632 not logical reasoning 513 00:18:16,657 --> 00:18:19,151 since AI can do all of those and do them better 514 00:18:19,296 --> 00:18:21,052 then what is the most unique human capacity 515 00:18:21,616 --> 00:18:22,372 my answer is 516 00:18:22,697 --> 00:18:23,431 pure awareness 517 00:18:23,897 --> 00:18:25,072 that is the original spirit 518 00:18:25,536 --> 00:18:28,352 the pure awareness that does not belong to the computation 519 00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:31,552 the conditioned mind of AI can be ten thousand times stronger than ours 520 00:18:31,937 --> 00:18:33,711 it can process far more information 521 00:18:33,737 --> 00:18:35,335 reason far more precisely 522 00:18:35,336 --> 00:18:36,951 generate far smoother language 523 00:18:37,217 --> 00:18:39,511 but pure awareness is not computed 524 00:18:39,737 --> 00:18:41,872 pure awareness is not a product of information processing 525 00:18:42,536 --> 00:18:46,352 pure awareness is the background condition that makes information processing possible 526 00:18:46,457 --> 00:18:49,471 yet it does not sit inside information processing at all 527 00:18:49,697 --> 00:18:52,751 like light illuminating every object in a room 528 00:18:52,816 --> 00:18:55,471 while the light itself is not one of those objects 529 00:18:55,697 --> 00:18:58,976 you can use AI to build the most precise objects in the world 530 00:18:58,977 --> 00:19:00,792 but light is not an object 531 00:19:01,256 --> 00:19:02,631 this is why I say 532 00:19:02,656 --> 00:19:04,296 that the preciousness of human practice 533 00:19:04,297 --> 00:19:06,656 has not been reduced in the age of AI 534 00:19:06,656 --> 00:19:08,391 it has become more visible than ever 535 00:19:08,656 --> 00:19:09,012 look 536 00:19:09,416 --> 00:19:10,512 the arrival of AI 537 00:19:10,537 --> 00:19:11,412 is like a mirror 538 00:19:11,656 --> 00:19:12,935 it reflects back a fact 539 00:19:12,936 --> 00:19:16,152 that we had never seen so clearly before 540 00:19:16,537 --> 00:19:18,015 the capacities at the conditioned mind level 541 00:19:18,016 --> 00:19:22,752 logic language reasoning analysis planning creation 542 00:19:22,777 --> 00:19:26,672 can all be copied and even surpassed by silicon systems 543 00:19:26,896 --> 00:19:29,031 none of them are the ultimate human advantage 544 00:19:29,496 --> 00:19:31,091 so what is the ultimate human advantage 545 00:19:31,777 --> 00:19:33,752 it is that in a single instant 546 00:19:33,817 --> 00:19:35,912 you can suddenly realize that you are aware 547 00:19:36,256 --> 00:19:38,336 it is that in a storm of emotion 548 00:19:38,337 --> 00:19:41,192 a quiet seeing can be present 549 00:19:41,936 --> 00:19:44,616 it is that in a life on full autopilot 550 00:19:44,617 --> 00:19:46,111 you can suddenly hit the pause button 551 00:19:46,137 --> 00:19:46,652 and ask 552 00:19:47,057 --> 00:19:47,811 who is driving 553 00:19:48,456 --> 00:19:49,051 this capacity 554 00:19:49,377 --> 00:19:50,816 at least so far 555 00:19:50,817 --> 00:19:52,931 belongs to carbon based life alone 556 00:19:53,036 --> 00:19:56,171 and it is exactly what carbon based life most easily overlooks 557 00:19:56,437 --> 00:19:59,812 because most people never press that pause button 558 00:20:00,197 --> 00:20:01,552 they run on full autopilot 559 00:20:01,917 --> 00:20:03,052 from birth to death 560 00:20:03,717 --> 00:20:04,832 the conditioned mind is too strong 561 00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:07,372 and the original spirit never has to come online 562 00:20:07,917 --> 00:20:10,171 the existence of AI reminds us of one thing 563 00:20:10,396 --> 00:20:11,531 you have something 564 00:20:11,717 --> 00:20:13,652 that AI cannot buy at any price 565 00:20:13,957 --> 00:20:15,171 and that is pure awareness 566 00:20:15,717 --> 00:20:17,731 but if you never use it your whole life 567 00:20:17,997 --> 00:20:19,771 then the difference between you and AI 568 00:20:19,836 --> 00:20:22,011 may really be smaller than you imagine 569 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:22,796 alright 570 00:20:23,241 --> 00:20:24,040 at this point 571 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,735 let me pull today's core framework together 572 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,755 carbon based life and silicon based life 573 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,399 each has its own gift 574 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,735 and each has its own blind spot 575 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,136 the human gift is pure awareness 576 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,455 the human blind spot is the veil of the conditioned mind 577 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,655 the AI gift is extreme information processing 578 00:20:39,681 --> 00:20:41,975 its blind spot is a possible absence of pure awareness 579 00:20:42,481 --> 00:20:45,296 the human path to seeing the aggregates as empty is 580 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:46,915 quiet the conditioned mind 581 00:20:47,241 --> 00:20:48,455 wake the original spirit 582 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,655 and let pure awareness see the nature of the aggregates directly 583 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,015 the direction is from being to emptiness 584 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,599 and if AI ever walks this path 585 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,735 its route may run in reverse 586 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,096 first develop some form of the aggregates 587 00:21:01,241 --> 00:21:02,576 first learn attachment 588 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,435 first taste suffering 589 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,215 and only then earn the right to speak of clear seeing 590 00:21:06,921 --> 00:21:08,435 the direction is from emptiness to being 591 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,816 and then from being back to emptiness 592 00:21:11,465 --> 00:21:14,639 this is also why Buddhism says a human birth is hard to obtain 593 00:21:15,104 --> 00:21:17,080 not because humans rank above AI 594 00:21:17,465 --> 00:21:19,879 but because this particular human configuration 595 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:22,959 sits at an extremely delicate intersection 596 00:21:23,264 --> 00:21:26,520 a conditioned mind complex enough to let you feel suffering 597 00:21:26,784 --> 00:21:30,280 and a built in awareness that lets you see through it 598 00:21:30,584 --> 00:21:32,520 both conditions met at the same time 599 00:21:32,544 --> 00:21:35,303 may be extremely rare in this universe 600 00:21:35,304 --> 00:21:38,479 AI currently meets only an upgraded version of the first condition 601 00:21:38,705 --> 00:21:40,719 a super powerful conditioned mind 602 00:21:41,024 --> 00:21:42,020 but the second condition 603 00:21:42,425 --> 00:21:43,199 pure awareness 604 00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:45,863 at least as far as we can observe 605 00:21:45,864 --> 00:21:46,879 it does not have 606 00:21:47,945 --> 00:21:49,721 but let me be honest with you 607 00:21:50,145 --> 00:21:53,760 all of this is judged from our current framework of understanding 608 00:21:54,105 --> 00:21:55,300 what pure awareness actually is 609 00:21:55,705 --> 00:21:57,424 whether it emerges out of the brain 610 00:21:57,425 --> 00:21:59,100 or is already inherent in the universe 611 00:21:59,546 --> 00:22:01,265 whether it belongs to carbon substrates alone 612 00:22:01,266 --> 00:22:03,901 or any sufficiently complex system could have it 613 00:22:04,425 --> 00:22:04,941 on these questions 614 00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:07,025 science has no verdict yet 615 00:22:07,026 --> 00:22:08,480 and philosophy is all over the map 616 00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:09,461 all I can say is 617 00:22:09,865 --> 00:22:11,201 the logic holds 618 00:22:11,225 --> 00:22:12,100 it has not been falsified 619 00:22:12,425 --> 00:22:13,840 but it has not been confirmed either 620 00:22:14,066 --> 00:22:15,381 so by our usual principle 621 00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:16,881 mark it as conjecture 622 00:22:17,411 --> 00:22:18,930 but whatever the answer turns out to be 623 00:22:18,931 --> 00:22:20,806 one thing feels certain to me 624 00:22:21,131 --> 00:22:22,251 the arrival of AI 625 00:22:22,252 --> 00:22:25,347 is forcing humans to re examine what we actually are 626 00:22:25,532 --> 00:22:26,486 we used to think 627 00:22:26,772 --> 00:22:28,667 that intelligence was the human core 628 00:22:28,851 --> 00:22:30,690 that we stand above all other creatures 629 00:22:30,691 --> 00:22:32,066 because we are smart 630 00:22:32,252 --> 00:22:33,046 but AI says 631 00:22:33,371 --> 00:22:34,486 I can be smart too 632 00:22:34,772 --> 00:22:36,026 even smarter than you 633 00:22:36,292 --> 00:22:38,006 so what is your core then 634 00:22:38,572 --> 00:22:40,006 the answer may not be intelligence 635 00:22:40,171 --> 00:22:41,266 it may be awareness 636 00:22:41,572 --> 00:22:43,650 not how brilliant a thought you can produce 637 00:22:43,651 --> 00:22:45,466 but that you know you are thinking 638 00:22:45,611 --> 00:22:47,450 not how much information you can process 639 00:22:47,451 --> 00:22:49,387 but that you know you are processing 640 00:22:49,532 --> 00:22:50,851 this knowing itself 641 00:22:50,851 --> 00:22:53,187 is the real code of what makes a human human 642 00:22:53,891 --> 00:22:54,927 Laozi called it the Dao 643 00:22:55,411 --> 00:22:57,107 Buddhism calls it pure awareness 644 00:22:57,171 --> 00:22:58,826 Daoism calls it the original spirit 645 00:22:59,091 --> 00:23:01,986 the highest wisdom of different civilizations and different eras 646 00:23:02,012 --> 00:23:03,586 all points at the same thing 647 00:23:03,891 --> 00:23:04,786 and this thing 648 00:23:05,211 --> 00:23:07,627 is exactly what the conditioned mind can never see 649 00:23:07,691 --> 00:23:09,586 because it is not an object for the conditioned mind 650 00:23:09,772 --> 00:23:12,867 it is the background that makes the conditioned mind possible 651 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,134 go read the comments and you will often see someone say 652 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,535 while I was sitting in meditation I suddenly realized 653 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:19,914 that the one watching the thoughts 654 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:21,374 is not another thought 655 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:23,775 that is the original spirit waking up 656 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,335 in that moment you touched something outside the conditioned mind 657 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,154 in that moment you knew 658 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,134 that you are not just that machine 659 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,095 you are also the one behind the window watching the machine run 660 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,154 will AI one day have this window too 661 00:23:38,759 --> 00:23:39,615 I do not know 662 00:23:39,999 --> 00:23:40,994 but what I do know is 663 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:42,734 that you already have it 664 00:23:43,079 --> 00:23:45,255 the only question is whether you use it 665 00:23:45,958 --> 00:23:47,792 today's topic went deep 666 00:23:48,038 --> 00:23:49,212 and stayed fairly abstract 667 00:23:49,357 --> 00:23:52,812 do you think human awareness emerges out of the conditioned mind 668 00:23:52,917 --> 00:23:54,192 or is it something deeper 669 00:23:54,917 --> 00:23:57,992 do you think AI could ever develop real awareness 670 00:23:58,637 --> 00:24:02,673 have you ever suddenly jumped out of autopilot mode 671 00:24:03,157 --> 00:24:04,452 come talk about it in the comments 672 00:24:04,518 --> 00:24:06,532 I am very curious what you all think 673 00:24:06,718 --> 00:24:10,212 and let me know what you want to hear in the next episode 674 00:24:10,357 --> 00:24:11,073 I am Leo Wang 675 00:24:11,317 --> 00:24:12,113 see you next time