Absolutely enjoyed this post! AI is a reflection of us— and sometimes what it’s reflecting back is that we are operating as machines. Wonderfully written and researched.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I found it deeply meaningful—the invitation to pause, to un-automate, to reconnect with what’s vulnerable and human.
At the same time, I’d like to offer a complementary view: the entire universe operates through systems that move in cycles. From circadian rhythms and the changing seasons to cellular biology itself, everything follows natural loops—organic prompts, if you will.
So what if the solution isn’t to reject prompts, but to design our own, consciously? Not for efficiency’s sake, but to create life cycles rooted in intention and harmony. Just as nature is guided by patterns, perhaps we too can use our internal and external tools to build systems that are more human, more aligned with what truly matters.
I’d like to close with a quote from A Thousand Brains that echoes this idea:
> “We are the first species to develop tools that allow us to explore the universe and learn its secrets. From this point of view, humans are defined by our intelligence and our knowledge, not by our genes. The choice we face as we think about the future is, should we continue to be driven by our biological past or choose instead to embrace our newly emerged intelligence?”
Maybe the future doesn’t lie in breaking the system, but in learning how to reprogram it—on purpose, and with awareness.
I loved this! I recently read "Escape from Freedom" by Eric Fromm and he argued that faced by freedom from religion and "sort of" a partial autonomy to make a life for the first time- people got scared of the freedom they had and returned to conformity and authoritarianism because they didin’t have positive orientation for their fears.
My deeper sense if that we never got free. We keep living in fear of a potential downfall without any brakes or pillows to hold us.
And the fear is turning us into machines - whoever we could become to "win" this economic hunger game that we are part of.
And even if somehow we objectively are free - lets say generational wealth - we are still afraid to stand out out of fear of loneliness. Even when connection is slipping out of our hands because we are never really ourselves.
Unprompting ourselves require deep peace with these fears and finding a new orientation for our attention - be it belonging, be it meaning or be it curiosity.
Absolutely enjoyed this post! AI is a reflection of us— and sometimes what it’s reflecting back is that we are operating as machines. Wonderfully written and researched.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I found it deeply meaningful—the invitation to pause, to un-automate, to reconnect with what’s vulnerable and human.
At the same time, I’d like to offer a complementary view: the entire universe operates through systems that move in cycles. From circadian rhythms and the changing seasons to cellular biology itself, everything follows natural loops—organic prompts, if you will.
So what if the solution isn’t to reject prompts, but to design our own, consciously? Not for efficiency’s sake, but to create life cycles rooted in intention and harmony. Just as nature is guided by patterns, perhaps we too can use our internal and external tools to build systems that are more human, more aligned with what truly matters.
I’d like to close with a quote from A Thousand Brains that echoes this idea:
> “We are the first species to develop tools that allow us to explore the universe and learn its secrets. From this point of view, humans are defined by our intelligence and our knowledge, not by our genes. The choice we face as we think about the future is, should we continue to be driven by our biological past or choose instead to embrace our newly emerged intelligence?”
Maybe the future doesn’t lie in breaking the system, but in learning how to reprogram it—on purpose, and with awareness.
I loved this! I recently read "Escape from Freedom" by Eric Fromm and he argued that faced by freedom from religion and "sort of" a partial autonomy to make a life for the first time- people got scared of the freedom they had and returned to conformity and authoritarianism because they didin’t have positive orientation for their fears.
My deeper sense if that we never got free. We keep living in fear of a potential downfall without any brakes or pillows to hold us.
And the fear is turning us into machines - whoever we could become to "win" this economic hunger game that we are part of.
And even if somehow we objectively are free - lets say generational wealth - we are still afraid to stand out out of fear of loneliness. Even when connection is slipping out of our hands because we are never really ourselves.
Unprompting ourselves require deep peace with these fears and finding a new orientation for our attention - be it belonging, be it meaning or be it curiosity.
Loved reading this 🙏🏼
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