Seeing Through the Lens of Vedanta
TECHNOLOGY SERIES
Artificial Intelligence and the Coming Spiritual Crisis
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.
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.
II. 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.
IV. 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.
V. 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.
VI. 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.
VII. 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.
VIII. After the Machines, Us
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms and automation, one human skill remains beyond replication: the ability to love. This final essay offers a quiet meditation on what we may rediscover—if we remember to reach for each other again.
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.