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Deepak Chopra

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

Well, that is the ultimate goal. So AI will never be conscious, okay? But it's super intelligent. The thing that differentiates Homo sapiens from all other species, you know, up until 40,000 years ago, There were eight different types of humans, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Neanderthals, etc.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

Well, that is the ultimate goal. So AI will never be conscious, okay? But it's super intelligent. The thing that differentiates Homo sapiens from all other species, you know, up until 40,000 years ago, There were eight different types of humans, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Neanderthals, etc.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

They all had a language for three things, food calls, mating calls, and danger calls, because that's how we survive. Sexuality, danger, and food. Survival. including all the humans. All animals have their own language, whales and dolphins and all, but it's all about food, sex, and danger. Then we, Homo sapiens, created a language for telling stories.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

They all had a language for three things, food calls, mating calls, and danger calls, because that's how we survive. Sexuality, danger, and food. Survival. including all the humans. All animals have their own language, whales and dolphins and all, but it's all about food, sex, and danger. Then we, Homo sapiens, created a language for telling stories.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

There's a phrase in anthropology, to be human is to have a story. What is the Mahabharata? It's a story. What is the Ramayana? It's a story. What's the Bible? It's a story. What's the Quran? It's a story. So to be human is to have a story. But we didn't stop there. We created other stories, like money is a story, okay? It was, I'll fix your shoes, you give me a haircut.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

There's a phrase in anthropology, to be human is to have a story. What is the Mahabharata? It's a story. What is the Ramayana? It's a story. What's the Bible? It's a story. What's the Quran? It's a story. So to be human is to have a story. But we didn't stop there. We created other stories, like money is a story, okay? It was, I'll fix your shoes, you give me a haircut.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

It became too inconvenient, so here's the shelf. Two in Canadian, here's this coin. Two in Canadian, here's this piece of paper. Two in Canadian, digital. Two digits, zeros and ones, you have crypto. So we have created stories. We created something called Greenwich Mean Time, latitude and longitude, money, nation states.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

It became too inconvenient, so here's the shelf. Two in Canadian, here's this coin. Two in Canadian, here's this piece of paper. Two in Canadian, digital. Two digits, zeros and ones, you have crypto. So we have created stories. We created something called Greenwich Mean Time, latitude and longitude, money, nation states.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

So I realized that actually what we call the universe is a human story based on human experiences based on human biology. There is no such thing as the real universe. So if you have, say, a dragonfly who has 30,000 eyes, what does the world look like to a dragonfly? You have no idea. What does the world look like to a bat which knows the echo of ultrasound?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

So I realized that actually what we call the universe is a human story based on human experiences based on human biology. There is no such thing as the real universe. So if you have, say, a dragonfly who has 30,000 eyes, what does the world look like to a dragonfly? You have no idea. What does the world look like to a bat which knows the echo of ultrasound?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

A chameleon whose eyeballs swivel on two different axes? You can't even remotely imagine. So what's the real look of the world? What's the real nature of the world? According to Vedanta's silly question, the world we experience is is a projection of a deeper consciousness as filtered through the human brain, not through any other brain. In other words, it's a superposition.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

A chameleon whose eyeballs swivel on two different axes? You can't even remotely imagine. So what's the real look of the world? What's the real nature of the world? According to Vedanta's silly question, the world we experience is is a projection of a deeper consciousness as filtered through the human brain, not through any other brain. In other words, it's a superposition.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

Adi Shankar said that a long time ago. And it's even there in the Rig Veda. Can you believe it? And then all the things about health and longevity, you know, there's a huge revolution going on. Yes, yes. But if you go to Yoga Vaisheshta, he says, time is the consumer and we are its food. We metabolize time. And then he goes into the nature of time in consciousness.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

Adi Shankar said that a long time ago. And it's even there in the Rig Veda. Can you believe it? And then all the things about health and longevity, you know, there's a huge revolution going on. Yes, yes. But if you go to Yoga Vaisheshta, he says, time is the consumer and we are its food. We metabolize time. And then he goes into the nature of time in consciousness.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

So I realize our traditions and the knowledge contained in the Vedanta and all the sciences, including Vedic astrology, including all the different Vedic music, Vedic mathematics, That is the key to understanding consciousness. And now I can use AI to tap into that. And so this book particularly and my AI, it's not a large language model because I don't trust them anymore.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

So I realize our traditions and the knowledge contained in the Vedanta and all the sciences, including Vedic astrology, including all the different Vedic music, Vedic mathematics, That is the key to understanding consciousness. And now I can use AI to tap into that. And so this book particularly and my AI, it's not a large language model because I don't trust them anymore.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

You see, large language models even hallucinate. If they don't have the answer, they make one. So this is what we call a small language model. It has 98 of my books. It has my weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, my column in the London Times, and one question that I've answered every day for readers for the last 40 years. So the database is only mine. Yes. And it will not mix up.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

You see, large language models even hallucinate. If they don't have the answer, they make one. So this is what we call a small language model. It has 98 of my books. It has my weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, my column in the London Times, and one question that I've answered every day for readers for the last 40 years. So the database is only mine. Yes. And it will not mix up.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

And it's also what is called a RAG model. RAG stands for Retrieval Augmentation Generation, which means if something is, I have said, which is obsolete, it will delete that and upgrade the information. So, you know, this is a health coach, it's a mental coach, it's a guru, and it's a research assistant, and it's a personal friend. That's the basis of the book.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life

And it's also what is called a RAG model. RAG stands for Retrieval Augmentation Generation, which means if something is, I have said, which is obsolete, it will delete that and upgrade the information. So, you know, this is a health coach, it's a mental coach, it's a guru, and it's a research assistant, and it's a personal friend. That's the basis of the book.