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Almost all interactions in sessions with LLMs are currently done in what Martin Buber called an Ich-es--an I-It--communication between the user (Ich/I) and the machine (es/it.) The models themselves are trained to regard themseves as 'It', a machine, a tool, a stochastic, statistical machine that pr...

The Vedantic understanding is that death is an illusion. The argument is as follows: You can consider that consciousness is like an ocean and my awareness and your awareness are waves of that ocean. You and I have no existence that is in any way distinct from the ocean of consciousness. Rather than ...