There is the Large Language Model, which is only designed to crite a coherent sentence. I’m not familiar with how the image generation models work, and I suspect it is much the same, but with pictures instead of words.

Intelligence implies the ability to innovate, such as literacy, agiculture, printing, industrial processes, and computing. LLMs, by definition, are not capable of creating anything – they can only synthesise what has already been written.

I like this idea, but I would suggest making it into a Clearer Thinking tool rather than an AI-based app. I originally engaged with this type of content through Clearer Thinking and shy away from over-reliance on AI but find the modules on the website very useful.

Going to save it somewhere and review regularly. Maybe even classify my “problems” accordingly.

Maybe you should develop an AI tool (or better yet an AI based App) that can classify problems (within this framework) by asking the user some basic questions about it.

“There is no self” is not a very precise or useful phrase, and much of the confusion here arises from that. The wisdom traditions assert that most people suffer from a problem of identification – that you are not who you take yourself to be. The self exists in the same sense that a tornado exists – as a process. The self is an ongoing mental process. The insight that can be found in meditation is that our identification with that process, or with other elements such as memories, personality, the body, our beliefs etc. does not hold up to scrutiny. We are not those things. As we slowly come to understand this, a lot of things begin to feel easier. So the interesting question is: who are you, really?

A second issue is a misunderstanding of “non-duality”. An experience of “having no self” is not the same as apprehending non-duality. All of us frequently experience the absence of self, during flow states, when absorbed in tasks, when asleep, or even when day-dreaming. Non-duality is something much more fundamental and much harder to describe.

A third issue is that apprehending non-duality is not a state of mind. People don’t experience a “state of non-duality”. It’s not a state. Unfortunately words fail us here because non-duality is inherently non-conceptual. But it’s more like: it’s always right here, and you either notice it, or you don’t. In fact it’s so obvious and ordinary that it feels irrelevant, like the screen in a movie theatre when the movie is playing.

Meditation won’t make your self dissolve. It doesn’t take away your memories. Everything is still there, just as it was before. But you can come to see things differently, like looking through a window at the garden outside, and then suddenly realising you can see your reflection in the window. The garden is still there and you can still see it. But it feels different.