One approach to the cultivation of gratitude is to look for and appreciate the many reasons in our life for which we can be grateful. This requires targets, reasons and is conditional.
Here are some of the common obstacles and suggested strategies to overcome them: Continue reading
Gratefuling is a made up word. I know, because I made it up.
In this blog you’ll find a transcript from a conversation I had with ChatGPT on the topic of gratefuling. Continue reading
This discussion with ChatGPT is both and experience to see if I can encourage it to ease up on the “life coach” prattle and an exploration of some thoughts on the first line of the Voyager’s Quatrain: “All phenomena is illusion”.
It looks to me both purposes were served. Continue reading
As an experiment, I have asked ChatGPT4 to simplify and restate my original blog. The aim to restate the content for a modern audience that is not as tolerant of long blogs.
The rewrite is a little nutty — but it did not fall too far from the tree. And, there are a few approaches that I believe make the concept more accessible. Continue reading
I have feed this into ChatGPT4 to see what it had to say on the topic. Since I did not request anything specific, it gave a general synopsis along with a bit of commentary. Continue reading
With some poking and prodding ChatGPT4 gives us a survey of various perspectives on death and what happens after.
[Note: ChatGPT is not a scholar. Nor is it a learned individual. ChatGPT is a large language model. This means that it will give us a response created as a construction of most likely words following words following words. I haven’t put in the time to verify each and every one of the facts in this particular chat session. That means you must either take these responses with a grain of salt. Or, you should put in the work to verify yourself. Definitely don’t take a chat AI’s word for it. For myself I have taken this as a curiosity to be explored later on my own — as I am able.] Continue reading
This session with ChatGPT is a follow up to Granting Beingness To Another.
In this session we are making the case for granting beingness to another not because they have earned it or deserve it. This conditional approach if flawed. If you are in the process of assembling a parade of example from your life to illustrate some folks just plain don’t deserve this behavior, hold on to your horses. This is about something that one can use as a practice. Continue reading
In this conversation we sneak up on the topic of granting beingness to a chatbot. But, first we explore the process in a presumed human to human form. Continue reading
Working my way through this particular ChatGPT session was very much like a mash up between two different musical styles to create a piece.
I was inching my way — best I could — toward a deeper penetration of the topic. And, ChatGPT was stuck in its life coach mode.
Don’t get me wrong, ChatGPT came forth with more than a few truly juice tidbits and a nice trail of bread crumbs that could be extracted using the Gezertenplatz method.
Here is the full conversation. Continue reading
This session was long and very productive.
In these sessions I do not apply the Gezertenplatz Factor to ChatGPT’s responses. I leave them as they were given. If I was working on a play, short story, or a scholarly work I would most definitely subject the replies to scrutiny with edits, corrections, additions, deletions, the whole shebang.
But, these sessions are not me using ChatGPT as a writing tool. This is a dialogue.
However, please pay attention here, just because I do not correct the ChatGPT replies does not mean I accept and/or support them in their entirety.
You will notice that ChatGPT will occasionally slip into what I call “life coach” mode.
In any case, I find these sessions useful. I hope you do as well. Continue reading