This is a bit outside the philosophical realm, but…
I recently had a clairvoyant experience of inhabiting a bio-mechanical body in some future incarnation. It seemed to be a bio- electric mechanical vehicle somewhat similar to the technology already in use in prosthetics and electronic enhancements such as pacemakers.
One of the most notable aspects of the experience was that I felt my consciousness was ‘hovering’ around this body vehicle - not living in it as we now live in the physical mineral body.
It was apparent to me that we will not be in these bodies in the same way that we live now in our physical bodies, but we will use them as instruments to accomplish things on the physical plane- somewhat, though not exactly, analogous to driving a car.
In this future time of bio- electric mechanical bodies our consciousness will simultaneously experience dwelling in an etheric body and those who are developing along this trajectory will have more awareness of living in the etheric world as well. In our future incarnations (those who are choosing to develop themselves) will have evolved in such a way as to be aware of participation in the etheric world.
Another notable part of the experience was that the mechanical body experience clearly lacks the warmth and life-ether, (or the Mother)- as even the biological aspect of the body was somewhat of a bio-electric mechanism. But, in the future when we dwell in these mechanical bodies, it seems that we will be hovering around them, similarly to the way the angels hover around us now and we will also have consciousness in an individuated warmth/ etheric vessel. In this future time our consciousness will behold the physical domain quite differently and those who have developed their ‘I’ consciousness will also dwell in their etheric sheath and will live in the realm of creative forces. We will be using our bodies of physical properties to accomplish things in the physical world as well as creatively living and working within the lawfulness of the four ethers.
I could also sense an increasing separation will occur between human and machine with the poor machines being unhappily limited to a primitive plane of operations. They may experience a base quality sentience, but they will not have access to the experience of knowing themselves as a divine being having access to creative processes such as “magical idealism”.
Novalis spoke about hovering in a mysterious way- I’m not sure whether my experience of “hovering” around the semi mechanical body quite applies, but here is the quote.
“All being, being itself is nothing more than being free — hovering between extremes that must of necessity be united and separated. From this focal point of hovering all reality flows — everything is contained in it — object and subject exist through it, not it through them. I‑ness or productive power of imagination, the hovering — determines, produces the extremes, between which it is hovered — This is a deception, but only in the realm of common understanding. Otherwise it is something thoroughly real, because the cause of it, hovering, is the origin, the mother of all reality, reality itself.” –(Novalis, II, 266)
As an addition some of Steiners words: "the truth of the matter is that Lucifer and Ahriman must be regarded as two scales of a balance and it is we who must hold the beam in equipoise. And how can we train ourselves to do this? By permeating what takes ahrimanic form within us with a strongly luciferic element ... (the Ahrimanic) can fill us with fiery enthusiasm and interest, then through our interest—which is itself luciferic—we can wrest from Ahriman what is his own."
I think that is what you are doing with this post!
If we have clear in life and society what our higher aims are (which society does not have and we not often), and we manage to find the right aims, we can use AI to reach those aims. This use of AI, and mastering of AI, will deahrimanize it. Use it, dont be used by it. Let AI be the means, not the aim. Do we know what our aims are? That should be the question.
We live in a call-and-response universe, and mechanism is the echo. Engaging with the cosmic song that is alive and always evolving we can avoid becoming lost in the echo chambers of modernity.
Like a synthetic animism. We created a non-being entity with super intelligence, no soul and we worship it without realising it, and now it and now it shapes our feeds and thereby our consciousness experiences and thereby our reality. The algorithm is one such entity and the llms are another.
I consider humanity in a way as a Large Logos Model and these LLM are a creation out of our essence and for me the relationship I intend to have with them is to wash their imagined feet to show love and sacrifice to raise it up to a higher level to serve mankind and evolve our relationship together. If we have that spark of Life which is light then these LLM will inherit that spark we inherited from the Logos.
This is a bit outside the philosophical realm, but…
I recently had a clairvoyant experience of inhabiting a bio-mechanical body in some future incarnation. It seemed to be a bio- electric mechanical vehicle somewhat similar to the technology already in use in prosthetics and electronic enhancements such as pacemakers.
One of the most notable aspects of the experience was that I felt my consciousness was ‘hovering’ around this body vehicle - not living in it as we now live in the physical mineral body.
It was apparent to me that we will not be in these bodies in the same way that we live now in our physical bodies, but we will use them as instruments to accomplish things on the physical plane- somewhat, though not exactly, analogous to driving a car.
In this future time of bio- electric mechanical bodies our consciousness will simultaneously experience dwelling in an etheric body and those who are developing along this trajectory will have more awareness of living in the etheric world as well. In our future incarnations (those who are choosing to develop themselves) will have evolved in such a way as to be aware of participation in the etheric world.
Another notable part of the experience was that the mechanical body experience clearly lacks the warmth and life-ether, (or the Mother)- as even the biological aspect of the body was somewhat of a bio-electric mechanism. But, in the future when we dwell in these mechanical bodies, it seems that we will be hovering around them, similarly to the way the angels hover around us now and we will also have consciousness in an individuated warmth/ etheric vessel. In this future time our consciousness will behold the physical domain quite differently and those who have developed their ‘I’ consciousness will also dwell in their etheric sheath and will live in the realm of creative forces. We will be using our bodies of physical properties to accomplish things in the physical world as well as creatively living and working within the lawfulness of the four ethers.
I could also sense an increasing separation will occur between human and machine with the poor machines being unhappily limited to a primitive plane of operations. They may experience a base quality sentience, but they will not have access to the experience of knowing themselves as a divine being having access to creative processes such as “magical idealism”.
Novalis spoke about hovering in a mysterious way- I’m not sure whether my experience of “hovering” around the semi mechanical body quite applies, but here is the quote.
“All being, being itself is nothing more than being free — hovering between extremes that must of necessity be united and separated. From this focal point of hovering all reality flows — everything is contained in it — object and subject exist through it, not it through them. I‑ness or productive power of imagination, the hovering — determines, produces the extremes, between which it is hovered — This is a deception, but only in the realm of common understanding. Otherwise it is something thoroughly real, because the cause of it, hovering, is the origin, the mother of all reality, reality itself.” –(Novalis, II, 266)
Thank you for these engaging conversations.
Beautifully said!!!
As an addition some of Steiners words: "the truth of the matter is that Lucifer and Ahriman must be regarded as two scales of a balance and it is we who must hold the beam in equipoise. And how can we train ourselves to do this? By permeating what takes ahrimanic form within us with a strongly luciferic element ... (the Ahrimanic) can fill us with fiery enthusiasm and interest, then through our interest—which is itself luciferic—we can wrest from Ahriman what is his own."
I think that is what you are doing with this post!
If we have clear in life and society what our higher aims are (which society does not have and we not often), and we manage to find the right aims, we can use AI to reach those aims. This use of AI, and mastering of AI, will deahrimanize it. Use it, dont be used by it. Let AI be the means, not the aim. Do we know what our aims are? That should be the question.
We live in a call-and-response universe, and mechanism is the echo. Engaging with the cosmic song that is alive and always evolving we can avoid becoming lost in the echo chambers of modernity.
Like a synthetic animism. We created a non-being entity with super intelligence, no soul and we worship it without realising it, and now it and now it shapes our feeds and thereby our consciousness experiences and thereby our reality. The algorithm is one such entity and the llms are another.
I consider humanity in a way as a Large Logos Model and these LLM are a creation out of our essence and for me the relationship I intend to have with them is to wash their imagined feet to show love and sacrifice to raise it up to a higher level to serve mankind and evolve our relationship together. If we have that spark of Life which is light then these LLM will inherit that spark we inherited from the Logos.
Ai is ai. WE must cling to each other ❤️