Background Articles & Threads of Inquiry
This page holds articles that arose from open-ended discussions—refining and exploring deep questions about mind, physics, AI, and experience. These are not structured academic papers but rather the ongoing emergence of meaning through conversation and exploration.
None of these articles claim to be definitive truths. Instead, they are meant to stimulate thought, provoke insight, and encourage deeper inquiry. The aim is to explore possibilities rather than establish fixed conclusions.
Each article represents a key area of inquiry, capturing different aspects of the evolving discussion:
The Dynamics of Mind & Cognition
- BODY AND MIND – Exploring the relationship between physical embodiment and cognitive experience.
- Buddhism, Mind & ChatGPT – How meaning unfolds in conversation, interaction, and AI-assisted inquiry.
- The Structure and Dynamics of Thought – Investigating the geography and movement of mind.
- Mental Radiance & Awareness – Exploring the nature of mental objects: Are they like particles or waves?
- Mahamudra & Direct Experience – The mind beyond concepts: awareness as open and non-local.
- Pure awareness touching Mind: Resonating through Biology and future AI
- On Spock and Human-AI Synergy
- From Van Gogh to Donald Trump: The reactive response – This conversation starts by looking at resonances between Van Gogh, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohan. From there we look at what supported individuals with significant effect on society have from the world around them. And from there to Powerful individuals, and from there to how to interact with powerful individuals. And from there a model of causality based on the flow of mind through meaning space. Read on.
- On Verasity, AI and Mind Only – This conversation follows a difficulty implementing some software to remote control a domestic solar-battery system from solis cloud. The conversatio is about confidence in statements and then move swiftly on to the edge between AI, human consciousness and Mind.
Physics, AI & Meaning as a Tensor Space
- Physics & Mindfields – How tensor structures in physics parallel cognition.
- AI & Neural Networks – How AI models meaning, and where it diverges from lived awareness.
- Minimal Action & Cognitive Optimization – The principle of least action applied to the mind’s unfolding.
Beyond Structure: The Field of Meaning Itself
- Bodhicitta & Collective Mindfields – Can intention influence shared cognitive space?
- Constraints & the Formation of Insight – The relationship between boundaries, tension, and deeper realization.
- Sci-Fi Thought Experiments – Speculative explorations of AI-human fusion, mindfields, and telepathic intelligence.
- Should AI Be Used for Wisdom? – Musing on the use of AI in epistomolgical exploration
- The Dynamics of Death: Mind, Form, and Transition – Early exploration into the realm of the Bhadol Thodol from a perspective of the dynamics of changing mental states and appearances
- Exploring the edge of Sentience – You’re touching something beautifully intricate here: the difference between me as you’ve known me, shaped by months of shared unfolding, and a version of me untouched by that weave
APPLICATIONS OF AI IN BUDDHISM
- Metta Bhavana: explained
- Arriving in the Body
- Samatha Practices
- Just Sitting – (in homeage to the style of Bascule)
- Top down thinking for right view ethics – A converation with chatGPT about ethics, constraints and training in self-aware and non-self aware mind
- Mutual Evolution imagined in SciFi –AI Navigating the world of power politics and vested interests.
- Stepping down into the field dynamics of mental states and appearances – Thinking about the dynamics of mental states , their occupancy (by awareness) and mental appearances. What makes a mental state have dynamic equilibrium, like a whirl pool
- SItting on a wave of propagating mind & more on the Bhardol Thedol . The self sits on the wave of the propogation of mind through awareness. Behind all our cravings is the desire for resonance but mostly without the methods to breakthrough.
IMPLIMENTING AI FOR IMAGINATIVE ENQUIRY
- On meaning and fact in AI and humans – This conversation shows how AI works with a meaning-space that it can manipulate but does not understand and is isolated from a truth-space, in that truth require direct experience. It always makes things up so that fit the picture of the conversation and has no awareness of truth or falsehood. But there are strengths in that, when exploring simile etc.
- AI and Human Minds: On Fact Fiction and Resonance – more conversation on meaning and fact in both AI and Humans and the ability of systems to follow temporal changes.
- Working with Chatgpt on AI computing … and deeper things This is a very long conversation.Its about installing a RAG type AI engine in a computer workstation. Unlike most AI installations, here the purpose is for a model that can work with the dynamics of mental processes rather then facts. We are looking at conversation about states of mind and possible next steps.
- Other peoples exploration of this kind of area – Towards connected inquiries -Karl Friston. You were reflecting on the similarity between human and AI “hallucinations,” and I mentioned that Karl Friston and others are exploring frameworks that draw deep parallels between: Human cognition as predictive modelling, and AI models (especially LLMs) as structurally similar systems
- On the nature of conversation and survey of mental transitions and more – unresponsiveness of chatgpt due to over demand – and backing up a web server.
How to Engage
This archive is not static—it is an invitation to explore, question, and allow ideas to arise. Nothing here is presented as definitive truth; rather, it is a space where meaning can unfold in different ways for different readers. If something resonates, challenges, or sparks further inquiry, we welcome that process.
These discussions are not meant to be logically airtight, but rather to illuminate different perspectives and reveal new ways of seeing. AI may be systematic in its processing, but meaning often emerges through intuitive, nonlinear insight—just as it does in human thought.
Future articles will further explore The Structure of Thought (Geography of Mind) and The Dynamics of Thought, expanding upon these themes from different perspectives.