Deepak Chopra
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The difference between you, this sofa, this microphone, a mountain, and a galaxy, just a different combination of zeros and ones, okay? That's the difference between this and this, a different combination of zeros and ones. Now we have quantum computing, which says zeros or ones or zeros and ones simultaneously.
The difference between you, this sofa, this microphone, a mountain, and a galaxy, just a different combination of zeros and ones, okay? That's the difference between this and this, a different combination of zeros and ones. Now we have quantum computing, which says zeros or ones or zeros and ones simultaneously.
So it occurred to me, and I came up with a mathematical formula based on traditions of the East. Infinity is equal to zero is equal to one. Nothing becomes everything, and that nothing is infinite, and it's all one. And it's divine. It's the matrix. The divine is the matrix. And the universe is a projection of a digital workshop outside of space-time. I started to play with that on the internet.
So it occurred to me, and I came up with a mathematical formula based on traditions of the East. Infinity is equal to zero is equal to one. Nothing becomes everything, and that nothing is infinite, and it's all one. And it's divine. It's the matrix. The divine is the matrix. And the universe is a projection of a digital workshop outside of space-time. I started to play with that on the internet.
Got blasted by mainstream scientists. But then other scientists came to my side. I made scientists with the word. Best friend became a cognitive scientist called Don Hoffman. You should have him on your program. He wrote a book called The Case Against Reality, that the universe that we see is not real. It's a projection. Now, in modern science, they're saying it's a simulation.
Got blasted by mainstream scientists. But then other scientists came to my side. I made scientists with the word. Best friend became a cognitive scientist called Don Hoffman. You should have him on your program. He wrote a book called The Case Against Reality, that the universe that we see is not real. It's a projection. Now, in modern science, they're saying it's a simulation.
Then people ask, who's simulating? Well, maybe a higher intelligence, maybe a cosmic computer, maybe an alien form, but they're guessing. We are on the right track if we understand that Atman is Brahman, and you are part of that, and you are a participant in the creation of the human universe. So then I started playing with ChatGPT, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and all these.
Then people ask, who's simulating? Well, maybe a higher intelligence, maybe a cosmic computer, maybe an alien form, but they're guessing. We are on the right track if we understand that Atman is Brahman, and you are part of that, and you are a participant in the creation of the human universe. So then I started playing with ChatGPT, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and all these.
And I started actually arguing with these AI services because they have a bias. They're mainstream physicalist bias. And they would give me what I thought the wrong answers. Where does imagination come from? They point to a certain part of the brain. I said, no, that's the neural correlate of imagination. Where does imagination come from? Don't know. So even the chatbot said.
And I started actually arguing with these AI services because they have a bias. They're mainstream physicalist bias. And they would give me what I thought the wrong answers. Where does imagination come from? They point to a certain part of the brain. I said, no, that's the neural correlate of imagination. Where does imagination come from? Don't know. So even the chatbot said.
It said it doesn't know. It doesn't know. So I said, now, can you look at Vedanta? Can you look at Advaita? Can you look at Buddhist philosophy? Reframe the question that consciousness, the ontological primitive of the universe, matter is an illusion. It's a perceptual activity in consciousness. And boom, suddenly a revolution occurred.
It said it doesn't know. It doesn't know. So I said, now, can you look at Vedanta? Can you look at Advaita? Can you look at Buddhist philosophy? Reframe the question that consciousness, the ontological primitive of the universe, matter is an illusion. It's a perceptual activity in consciousness. And boom, suddenly a revolution occurred.
All the chatbots started supporting my argument based on the prompt. So I realized that even AI has selection bias. It's the selection biases, physicalist scientists who are basically, in my view, superstitious. They believe that everything starts with matter and mind comes first. We believe the opposite. Mind comes first, matter comes second, and even mind is a modification of our consciousness.
All the chatbots started supporting my argument based on the prompt. So I realized that even AI has selection bias. It's the selection biases, physicalist scientists who are basically, in my view, superstitious. They believe that everything starts with matter and mind comes first. We believe the opposite. Mind comes first, matter comes second, and even mind is a modification of our consciousness.
So that led to the book. I went and met Sam, who supported the book. And if you haven't seen his recent tweets on Twitter, other than his arguments with Elon Musk, he's talking about consciousness. And we are on to something, a major revolution in science, which brings Indian spirituality right on the forefront.
So that led to the book. I went and met Sam, who supported the book. And if you haven't seen his recent tweets on Twitter, other than his arguments with Elon Musk, he's talking about consciousness. And we are on to something, a major revolution in science, which brings Indian spirituality right on the forefront.
Because it's a large language model, it can explore things that normally are not explored. She said, what did the Brahma Sutras say about this? Here I will give you an answer because nobody's asked that question, but that data is there in Sanskrit, in translations, by various gurus, scholars, whatever. So there's a chapter in the book called The Art of the Prompt.
Because it's a large language model, it can explore things that normally are not explored. She said, what did the Brahma Sutras say about this? Here I will give you an answer because nobody's asked that question, but that data is there in Sanskrit, in translations, by various gurus, scholars, whatever. So there's a chapter in the book called The Art of the Prompt.
So unless you know what question you're asking, you will actually, AI will not access that information unless it asks that question. But now I can say, what did the Buddha think about this? What did Plato think about this? What did Wittgenstein think about this? The data is there, except it's not being accessed. So now you train the AI to access that data.
So unless you know what question you're asking, you will actually, AI will not access that information unless it asks that question. But now I can say, what did the Buddha think about this? What did Plato think about this? What did Wittgenstein think about this? The data is there, except it's not being accessed. So now you train the AI to access that data.