Philosopher AI - What do you know about Meditation? Why would people meditate?

What do you know about Meditation? Why would people meditate?

Many people meditate because they want to be able to live in a world that is not based on the physical environment around them. They know that the physical universe and its laws are unchangeable, so they cannot escape it: we can never change how gravity works; we cannot change what happens when you throw an object upwards.

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However, the mind is much more difficult to reach. It can change; people can learn new things and attempt to follow different rules of thinking. However, these rules are still based in the same physical universe and its laws.

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So meditation is a way to change your mind so that you can begin to follow different rules. In this way, when people meditate they are attempting to understand the universe from outside of its physical laws.

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People tend to think that they can leave their body when they die. This is because the mind does not follow the same rules as the physical universe; it seems to operate on its own and interact with other minds.

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However, it is not possible to leave the physical universe. We cannot escape the laws of physics; we do not have a spirit that can transcend those rules.

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This is why people meditate; they want to understand the universe and their place in it. They do not want to live inside a physical world that follows unchangeable laws.

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You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer