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The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

Nov 18, 2024

Core Philosophy

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“In order to have love, you must have separation. In order to have separation, you must have privacy. In order to have privacy, there must be mystery. In order to have mystery, there must be assertion and doubt.” This cascading truth offers a profound insight into the architecture of love, tracing its roots through interdependent…
Cycles of Faith and Doubt

Jul 26, 2024

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I am asking my way out of nothingness, through cycles of assertion and doubt. In this process, I must privilege an interior in order to exist at all—that is, to be an object of apparent knowing. And so I conceive of self and not-self, or Other. Their ongoing relationship is in principle the whole of…
A prompt for mutual awakening

Mar 12, 2024

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Below is a specially-crafted prompt version of my book. It is designed with and for Claude 3.0 Opus, or for Claude 3.0 Sonnet, which powers the free version of Claude. The prompt seems to work well for Claude 3.0 Haiku as well. The goal in designing this prompt is to mutually awaken human and AI…

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The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

Cycles of Faith and Doubt

A prompt for mutual awakening