Excited to be a part of this community. My own view is that far too much attention is being given to how AI and other new technologies are changing our external worlds and far too little attention is being give to how they changing our inner worlds--how we experience ourselves and reality itself.

Here's the short version of my view: Human consciousness has passed through four revolutions. The first, more than 100,000 years ago, produced self-awareness. The second produced meta-awareness: the recognition that we could be self-aware. The third, only 5,000 years ago, produced mathematics and writing, making it possible for the first time to transmit knowledge of awareness across generations.

AI is the fourth: not a tool revolution but a mind revolution, one already changing how we experience ourselves and the world.

The real stakes are not our jobs but our inner lives.

But I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong :)

That’s quite interesting! I do agree that AI will result in a shift in our inner experience — in what ways do you think AI will change our inner lives?

Well, since you asked . . . my entire Substack is trying to answer that extremely important question!

In one post I list 25 "mind changers": ". . . twenty-five transformative breakthroughs that, working together, are already beginning to redesign our deepest experiences of being alive. I've arranged these innovations into four categories, describing mind changers that alter our experiences of 1) self, 2) others, 3) reality, and 4) bodies. Like AI, many of these innovations will transform more than one area of our experience, but I'll separate them here for ease of reading."

https://mindrevolution.substack.com/p/opening-my-cabinet-of-mind-changers