Month: September 2026

Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness "Consciousness is the capacity to have subjective experience – there being something it feels like to be you.”[1] ChatGPT Is artificial intelligence (AI) conscious? Can it become so? I was discussing these questions with my friend and author, Bryan Welch. He, in his sometimes-annoyingly direct manner, said, “Why don’t you ask … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

Levels of Consciousness, Part 4 "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."[1] Lao Tzu In order to better understand how consciousness may exist in levels of awareness, only some of which are perceptible to us, it can be helpful to consider other, more familiar aspects of reality … Continue reading Levels of Consciousness, Part 4

Levels of Consciousness, Part 3 "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."[1] Lao Tzu In order to place universal or divine consciousness into context, it is important to understand that all awareness is contained within the universal consciousness. Our daily awareness, or our reality,  is but a … Continue reading Levels of Consciousness, Part 3

Levels of Consciousness, Part 2 "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."[1] Lao Tzu One of my first formal exposures to levels of consciousness occurred in an introductory Psychology class in college with Sigmund Freud’s model of the psyche. He named three mental foci as the id, … Continue reading Levels of Consciousness, Part 2