The Architecture of Contemplation

Prescriptive

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Today I am speaking with ChatGPT - yes, that's right, I 'spoke' to the text AI developed by OpenAI.

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I wanted to know the big questions: what is awe, what wisdom has remained consistent across all ages, what is the neuroscience of mindfulness, what is beauty, and much, much more. 

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The format is slightly different to previous episodes: I am both me H, the host, and I also read out aloud ChatGPT's replies in real time (hopefully in a conversational tone). I spoke for nearly 50mins straight and I can tell you it was tough. I flubbed more than is typical for me, my thoughts sometimes tailed off, and my analogies became mixed. When interfacing with a 'response-maker' that is articulate, programmatic, and so confidently prescriptive every time, my brain crumpled on occasion. 

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Prescriptive is the word for this episode, as ChatGPT is most effective when giving 'listicle' forms of advice, and insights that are relatively objective, and fact-based. I tried to lure the ChatGPT into more anthropocentric questions, but it remained dogmatically itself, i.e. a text based AI chatbot.

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As for rest, respite and contemplation, I asked ChatGPT to articulate the feelings engendered when one looks out into the Cosmos.

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Without further ado, I bring you my conversation with ChatGPT. It was quite the ride!

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