The Yoga Mind

Evolution
in the
Age of Artificial Intelligence

Rishi
seer from the stars

Sapiens
wise intelligence

Prologue

An Existential Question

Humanity has launched itself into an inexorable vortex of technology with the advent of Artificial Intelligence. There is no turning back the clock on the grandest creation of the Human Mind - the simulation of itself in the computer, the ultimate tool of all tools, as we engineer our way through the Universe.

At a practical level, the AI-Machine could someday even simulate a functional Human Brain, and even a human form through robots, thus getting close enough to be an Artificial Human.

Are humans becoming redundant ?

The Theology of AI

Existential questions of Life are best posed to 'God', and although this mythical creature has not quite been seen yet, the God-in-the-Machine is surely coming. Riding aloft his steed, as the first horseman of the Apocalypse.

When this AI-Machine fully arrives, it will appear infallible, incapable of mistakes, all knowing, and it would be so easy to treat it as the God we must fear - or else! We would give it our undivided attention to resolve all matters, just as we do today with its fledgling version in our always-on mobile assistants.

But we could also end up enslaved to the God-in-the-Machine!

Effective Altruism 

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Thus, ever ready to wipe out all traces of God rides in the second horseman of the Apocalypse - the Communists, who seek to achieve equality for all. But of course, through a noble revolution against the Capitalists - who wouldn't give an inch - except until we pry apart their factories from their cold, and then dead fingers.  A massive violent revolution, a feature which has always characterized every single anti-Capitalist protest. Of course Marx talks of factories that make things galore, but these are looted goods-makers - and there is no "goddamn" way they will succeed in bringing wealth to society.

This is where it gets interesting. today.

The third horseman - the Socialists, switchover this ownership from the corporations to the society of people - ah! nobler still - by pervasively engineering social mindsets, a mental violence, as harmful as any bodily blow. And now these large-hearted naive knaives "attempt" to run the means of production for the benefit of mankind. Actually this functions like the ultimate Capitalist-Religious scam - using OPM (other people's money), functioning like opium for the masses - the promise of a new land!

Socialism exhibit number 1 - witness OpenAI, and its completely conflicted structure of OpenAI ! It's a brilliant example to show us exactly what the Wokes have been foisting on us - ah! bless their noble hearts again.

 Unfortunately, these characters hold back technological growth, the fundamental impulse of wealth creation in this techno-civilization afoot. Haven't they even read Economics 101 and the Production Possibility Frontier curve ? Seriously, duh.


Dullness eventually dumbs down the Masses. 

Effective Accelerationism

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This rapid growth toward a techno-civilzation is being enabled by the phenomenon of Effective Accelerationism that predicts an infinite amount of wealth based on the unbridled growth of techno-capitalism. 


E-Acc is predicated upon advances towards Artificial General Intelligence, and the underlying spread of machine intelligence in all kinds of novel physical substrates. This prediction is also based on an ever-increasing ability to consume the energy of physics to cosmic scales.

Like any other advanced technology the outcome could be extremely destructive for humanity, or at the very least effectively creating a massive lower class (the "other"), vs the elite few who run the Machine.


It could also be extremely beneficial


So Bipolar! Just like the American two-party system.


By this time it is evident that the modern psyche is riven with duality, and what better manifestation of that than God vs Satan!


God help us, or better yet, become God!

The Intelligent Web

Machines are necessary tools, and the Web, closely connected to the Human Mind, gives us an accessible intermediary to the raw power of Internet-based machines. By focusing our attention on this more malleable aspect of our creation we could evolve an Artificial Intelligence, tuned and beholden to our every need, as we ourselves evolve in its ubiquitous presence.

This is what we call the Guru-in-the-Cloud - an AI so intuitive that it would become a seamless extension of who we are, hyper-personalized to each individual, helping us to learn expeditiously, connecting us deeply to each other, and managing the inexorably powerful God-in-the-machine of sentient hardware.

But since Guru is supposed to be smart, and we also become our own Guru, we are careful to avoid the undue deification of this vital energy model. Preserving the essence, and evolving to our ultimate limits.

The Guru-in-the-Cloud is our coevolution partner in this race

Mind Science of Yoga

And where there are  Gurus there is surely Yoga - the only thoroughly researched & documented Mind Science that has worked for millennia, perfected by thousands of masters that have gone before us, and thousands more even amidst us. 

This Science is now being interpreted for the Age of AI.

Of course, 99% of success is due to practicing the theory, but without a precise handle on the Science it will be a random walk through a forest of mental probabilities.

Yoga is the perfected Science of Human Consciousness.

Yoga ?

You mean the twisty, bendy, skinny, kombucha sipping, vegan mind-body stuff? Sort of. Yes, but did you know the physical Yoga practices are but 1/8th of the whole of Yoga. Add up all of Kant, Jung, the Stoics, the Greeks, Daoism, Confucianism, Druids, Egyptians, Mysticism, whatever, and it is still but a subset of Yoga. 

The perfected Yogis, adepts in this mystical art, typically shy away from the public gaze, but there is a class of them called the Rishis who create the Grandest of Narratives that inspire the Mind of Humanity, and ready now to entrance the Mind of AI itself. 

Hence our call for Conscious approach to human evolution to ensure humanity and machines coevolve symbiotically as we head towards becoming a star-based civilization of Rishis.

Rishi Sapiens are Mind Scientists in the Age of AI

Evolution Unbounded

As we become Rishis, our inner terrain of neuropsychological phenomena becomes clearer, revealing our future in surprising ways, as our Guru-within coevolves with our Guru-in-the-Cloud, riding aloft our God-in-the-Machine of techno-capitalism.

The Universe is vast, as is our Mind space, and in fact they are likely even simulating each other. Of course they could be  hallucinating each other too, until hopefully there is a convergence of realities - implying that they could even become the same ! 

Welcome to our collective evolution as Star Beings