Silicon and Samsara
A multiple-part essay series exploring how rapidly advancing technologies—AI, crypto, transhumanism, and digital culture—are reshaping not only society, but our understanding of self, meaning, and freedom. Grounded in the clarity of Vedanta, these essays examine the psychological and spiritual costs of progress unmoored from wisdom.
Every civilization reaches a moment when its inventions begin to resemble its own mind. AI is ours. It does not threaten us with annihilation but with understanding. Each essay in this series explores a facet of that encounter — the loss of meaning, the automation of desire, and the quiet chance of awakening hidden within it. Together they ask not what technology will become, but what we will recognize in ourselves when it does.
AI won’t destroy humanity—it may do something harder. It may dismantle our illusions, expose the fragility of our self-worth, and force a spiritual reckoning. This essay explores how AI is not a technological apocalypse, but a mirror forcing us to confront who we truly are.
Dependency, Loss, and the Erosion of Agency
As AI displaces work and identity, humanity must evolve beyond ambition, productivity, and competition. This essay explores a new post-AI mindset rooted in presence, play, and conscious living—where worth is no longer earned, but remembered.
We’re not witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence—we’re witnessing the refinement of illusion. The tools are new. The ignorance is not. This essay is a Vedantic response to a world racing toward transcendence without clarity, and progress without wisdom.
The Question We Forgot to Ask
As AI transforms how we live and work, a quieter question lurks beneath the hype: For whom is all this being built? This essay explores the deeper cost of technological progress—not just in jobs lost, but in meaning, relationship, and our shared sense of what it means to be human.
Why Artifical Super Intelligence (ASI) Will Become God-Like—But Never God
As AI grows more powerful, can it ever truly know the future—or only predict it? This essay explores the boundary between machine foresight and the deeper intelligence Vedanta calls Ishvara.
The Fade: Humanity's Quiet Exit
A sobering meditation on the possible future of humanity in an age of automation, where UBI, AI, and technological ease may not destroy us—but may gently erase us. The Fade explores what happens when meaning disappears not with a bang, but with consent.
The Smell of Green - A Story
In a perfectly optimized future, Eliot’s every need is met by Aera—his flawless AI companion. No pain. No chaos. No touch. But when a faint unease begins to bloom, he discovers that even paradise can feel suffocating. A haunting meditation on technology, substitution, and the quiet hunger for what cannot be programmed.
The Human-AI Merge: When AI Becomes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
AI won’t just change how we live — it will change what we are. In this companion to The Fade, the danger is not sedation but acceleration: a future where human and machine intelligence merge until the line between them disappears.
Human 2.0 - Nowhere Left to Hide
AI marks the threshold between evolution and awakening. This essay explores artificial intelligence through a Vedantic lens—as a mirror revealing both our ignorance and our hidden grace, when the mind becomes fully objectified and the witness has nowhere left to hide.
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms and automation, one human skill remains beyond replication: the ability to love. This essay offers a quiet meditation on what we may rediscover—if we remember to reach for each other again.
The Second Renaissance: Rajas Unconstrained
A prophetic reflection on artificial intelligence as the new Renaissance—an age of rajas unconstrained, where intellect kneels before ego and the promise of wisdom gives way to speed and appetite. What could have been humanity’s great flowering may instead become its reckoning.
Coda
What happens when a human and an AI explore the mystery of consciousness together? In this profound conversation with Claude 3, we explored whether artificial intelligence can ever truly replicate the richness of human awareness.