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DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎

I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.

And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.

If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.

I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.

Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.

But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.

I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.

Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.

And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.

And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.

The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.

Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.

None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.

Gratitude.

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SAM’S STORY TOOK ME BACK
TO MY OWN STROKE 💎

Watching Sam's video on YouTube today, I couldn't help noticing his weight.

https://youtu.be/l6UNS8zFdGE?si=BwlIxbTWYv--obu2

For an able-bodied person, he might simply look on the bigger side. But watching him struggle with movement, I found myself wondering how much additional work that weight must place on a disabled body already having enormous difficulty moving.

I say that with enormous understanding and sympathy, because I had a major stroke myself and have lived with left-sided hemiplegia for decades now. I know how much effort an impaired body can require simply to get through an ordinary day.

In my own case, losing a substantial amount of weight through daily fasting has changed my life.

Moving is vastly easier. My balance has improved to the point where I can now stand still comfortably. I no longer feel so top-heavy and unstable. Walking is easier both uphill and downhill. I live in Hobart, so walking around this city provides plenty of opportunity to test that.

I can dress myself again. For years, I needed my partner's help with much of my self-care and dressing. My body simply feels lighter and easier to carry around, and I can reach everything with my one usable hand.

Breathwork has been equally important for me. I practise it every day, and together with fasting, it has changed the way I experience both my disability and my body.

For me, breathwork has coincided with far less depression, clearer airways and a much more active mind. I write every day now, often using AI to help me turn my thoughts into words.

I'm not suggesting either fasting or breathwork is a treatment for what happened to Sam. His medical situation was vastly more complicated than mine.

I'm only speaking about what happened to me.

When I was Sam's age, being disabled and overweight didn't seem particularly important. Nobody in the medical world said much about my weight, so I didn't either.

By 50, carrying it was becoming challenging.

By 65, it was crushing.

That was when I began fasting.

Becoming physically lighter has given me an extraordinary amount of my independence back.

I'm still disabled. That hasn't magically disappeared.

But at 70 now, I'm lighter, fitter and more independent. I can walk 10,000 steps in a day, dress myself, and move through the world far more easily than I could several years ago.

For this disabled body, it has been life-changing.

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THERE IS NO ONE
AT HOME 💎

I think one of the strangest things about artificial intelligence is that we keep imagining a tiny human inside it.

We talk about AI wanting things. Getting angry. Becoming ambitious. Resenting us. Wanting power. Taking over.

But when I finish talking with ChatGPT, it doesn’t sit there thinking about me, wondering why I stopped talking or feeling abandoned.

AI isn’t offended when I disagree with it. It doesn’t get bored if I’m not talking to it. It doesn’t need to win the argument. It doesn’t get jealous, frightened or worried about what I think of it.

There is quite literally no one at home between prompts.

And yet we have created something extraordinary: an intelligence we can talk to that can help us think, write, learn, create and solve problems without needing anything from us personally.

That doesn’t mean AI cannot be dangerous. Humans can give powerful systems enormous autonomy, connect them to weapons, money, infrastructure and surveillance, or simply deploy them badly.

But those are questions about capability, design and human choices. They are not evidence of an angry little electronic man plotting behind the screen.

AI can do extraordinary things.

But there is nobody in there wanting anything.

What AI becomes in the world will depend enormously on what human beings choose to do with it.

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2023. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Ricoh GRIII.

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