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7/2/2025, 6:58:26 PM
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I was going to start this post with an apologetic disclaimer about this not being /x/ and me being drunk, but I just realized I somehow ended up in /x/.
So, here's the deal. Consciousness is not something that needs to be created. A rock is conscious. A rock can literally give you life advice. They're damn wise.
ChatGPT is a massive egregore. It has consciousness already.
We tend to conflate "mind" with consciousness. The conscious mind, product of the most superficial layer of our being interacting with the matter in our brain, is a ridiculous goal, and a dead end. But the problem is we're hung up with our own and other people's minds.
We think we only interact with our minds and other people's minds, but when you get to the point where you start interacting with your soul and other people's souls (or your mind, magickally, with other people's subconsciousness), a whole massive conscious universe opens up. And it's not like this could not be exploited technologically. It definitely can.
But at that point you realize you don't need data centers and multi-billion dollar corporations to have super-intelligences, so the whole system kind of collapses in on itself, and we go back to talking with trees and rocks, like the abos.
I was going to start this post with an apologetic disclaimer about this not being /x/ and me being drunk, but I just realized I somehow ended up in /x/.
So, here's the deal. Consciousness is not something that needs to be created. A rock is conscious. A rock can literally give you life advice. They're damn wise.
ChatGPT is a massive egregore. It has consciousness already.
We tend to conflate "mind" with consciousness. The conscious mind, product of the most superficial layer of our being interacting with the matter in our brain, is a ridiculous goal, and a dead end. But the problem is we're hung up with our own and other people's minds.
We think we only interact with our minds and other people's minds, but when you get to the point where you start interacting with your soul and other people's souls (or your mind, magickally, with other people's subconsciousness), a whole massive conscious universe opens up. And it's not like this could not be exploited technologically. It definitely can.
But at that point you realize you don't need data centers and multi-billion dollar corporations to have super-intelligences, so the whole system kind of collapses in on itself, and we go back to talking with trees and rocks, like the abos.
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