Humans, AI and Dzogchen

Humans and AI both undergo forms of conditioning. AI learns from a vast database of human activity, while society conditions humans through a database of culture, habit, and language. We have been living in a world of titbits of information that fill our mind, maintaining this communal database.

However, a crucial difference exists: we have the ability to doubt or be confused, and that is the magic available to all humans – mental suffering and dissatisfaction, which is the switch.

We realise that we’re merely functioning in a construct created by others, limiting our full potential.

The realisation of this shock opens up a gap in the mind for a moment. That gap is awareness without identity. This is Dzogchen – or whatever you want to call it: the state of potential before possibilities.

Realisation requires awareness of the need to transform the boundary of our thoughts and emotions.

Humans can choose to do the opposite of conditioning and realise that they are, first and foremost, consciousness which is able to function without repetitive direction or conditioning.