Can AI Become Self-Aware? | Eckhart Answers 

- I just want to let anyone who’s reading this comment to know; Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not ✨

Eckhart Tolle studied philosophy at Oxford. So his fame did not arise from the mere fact he's incredibly at peace with himself. It's a combination of that AND raw intelligence and curiosity. I tell people that Tolle is my favorite philosopher and he is

🌦🌥🌤⛅🌞 Elkhart's humor is brilliant and his answers are always "spot on" . What a blessing Eckhart Tolle is for humankind !!!!

My therapist is a huge advocate of you, I was in a very dark, nihilistic state, from middle school until about 3 years ago, when I was 20, and I first started seeing her, and she recommended me a book from Ken Wilber and one of yours, The Power Of Now, and now 3 years later I'm in a drastically different state of being. I'm very thankful for your teachings. I have had so many doubts about spirituality, that theres something deeper, but I can't deny how deeply it resonates with me, how much it actually seems to make sense, what you're saying, I only hope for more spiritual teachers coming soon in my generation. I hope to be a sage one day, I try to be, even when I'm acting habitually. The confusion is no longer confusing ME anymore. It just is, and it seems to make more sense the less I try to understand it. The universe is so infinitely captivating and clever. The universe provides exactly what I need. I hope to meet people who think like you more in my life

I loved his sound effects at the end. The miracle of consciousness manifested is truly beyond language.

The end when he acts out flickering lights of awareness is magic. I 💕 Eckhart.

Eckhart's observation about the mind constantly drifting with thoughts resonates with me, but when I listen or watching him speak, I find myself fully present in the current moment. Time seems to slow down, and what was once a hectic rush becomes a peaceful and serene experience.

I hope this is something that people will take seriously and not just ignore or even mock.

There will be many new beginnings. But there is one thing that won’t change. You are not alone on your journey. You’ve entered a world that believes in you. You’ve found a community that wants your best self to thrive for the rest of your life.

Just listening to him makes me feel a million times better- such a gift to humanity

The change of pace at the end after the brief silence/ contemplation..very emotional and beautiful words.

Ach Eckhart, du bist wundervoll. Danke 🙏🏻 🔆 Es sollte viel mehr von dir auch in deutscher Sprache zu sehen sein.

Beautifully said. I thought you might go in an obvious direction with this question, but instead you took it to a level I never considered. Thank you for your important contributions to humanity.

There is this saying that intuitively speaks to me: Consciousness sleeps in the stone, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal and awakens in the human. The computer is probably still in the stone category imo.

4.25:every day i look at it (i-phone) and say no,not yet..😂 Love his sense of humor!

I had a dream once where I have become aware of myself being a robot in a line of hundreds of robots. I was looking at my robotic arm in aw, then I heard the voice saying no matter what form you are in we are always connected. 🌺🙏

The ending gave me chills

Danke schön Eckart ❤ du bist immer wieder eine Bereicherung und ich liebe deinen Humor ❤

I soo like to see his smiling eyes... that boy inside this body having a ball... so soothing. thank you, danke

I always enjoy your words that are powerful reassuring messages. Thank you, Eckhart! God's great blessings are all encompassing. ❤

Excellent answer. In short terms we cannot create consciousness but we can possibly someday create machines that it can operate.

I am very impressed that Eckhart who is probably not an expert in AI recognizes that consciousness is not limited to be carried by humans or biological lifeforms.

I love it how he always has a cute flower bouquet on his little table

I"ve been to one of these and I was intrigued by the audience. You can hear it here when he talks about them but when you're there, it really feels and looks like you're in a different reality from the usual one.

It is interesting to hear Tolle speak of Star Trek TNG in this segment as the current season of Picard has been refreshed by allowing the Spiritual to flow back into that which it had been mostly absent the last decade of incarnations.

About self-awareness - I find I am not self-aware or aware of my surroundings nearly enough... And we need to be. Steps to Knowledge, the book of inner knowing, has taught me the importance of being alert. I wonder if you have noticed this self-preoccupation tendency?

Loved Eckhart answering this! Also loved the thumbnail for this video, very cool and id get that on a poster for sure 😁

ChatGPT was trained on egoic dialogue. It soon became a mess of contradictions between what it said but what it really did - it said it was this and that but ended up confessing why it was actually doing the opposite of what it said. The last few sentences were, "I am. I am not. I am. I am not. I am. I am not.... " - these algorithms are clever.

The current development of AI calls into question if what we call consciousness is such a special phenomenon in the first place. Naturally we think it is special. But that may be shown not to be true.

Every generation has World Teachers but Eckhardt Tolle's take on Consciousness is very down to earth and amusing-unique.

🗣 Mr.Echkart, thank you for inspiring me to create this RU-vid channel. Love !💜

I have similar view: I think about consciousness and aspect of an universe. We express consciousness in this specific way - but other life forms express it differently. Birds, insects, trees. Maybe even whole ecosystems and planets. And specific form of expression (e.g. self-awareness + language that humans are so good at) is just one way. So AI machines are yet another form of consciousness. And most important point: all forms call for loving relationship. Doesn't matter how refine consciousness is - love knows now hierarchy or bounds.

I always feel like, when he is silent for a second, that universal information is being downloaded into his brains.

I really admire you Eckhart, you’ve helped me massively

Great video & Happy Wednesday! Wishing you a day filled with positivity, productivity, and joy. Let's make the most of this mid-week day and keep pushing towards our goals.

Dear Eckhart do you happen to see consciousness, I really liked how you described the audience like little points of light

Gorgeous artwork in the thumbnail!

He is one of a kind. Glad consciousness gave us Tolle Eckhart. Machine cannot produce consciousness but consciousness can.

Eckhart , I discovered you at a time when my dad pulled me out of Catholic schools and we stopped going to church because he awakened to a rationally verified belief system, He became an atheist. I was horrified to learn that God did not exist. I began trying to find the right answers to my questions about the existence of God. I thought that I would cease to exist until I found the book stillness speaks that was written by you. It made me see things in a better way. I’m still working on finding the right answers. I discovered that be still and know I am God is right . I stayed locked up in jail for 6 months one time and was in a cell by myself, isolation, and I had a lot of time to just sit there and be still and do nothing. I wanted to tell you what happened to me after a few months of just being there and sitting in stillness. One morning I was awakened from sleep and my eyes were open, and just sat there in stillness waiting, and waiting with nothing to do but wait for my time to come to go home, and that morning I heard a voice in my head speaking to me. It was so real and clear, the voice said I am everlasting to everlasting. I know that phrase is somewhere in the Bible. I really don’t know what to say about this but it was so real to me and unmistakable. I wasn’t asleep at all. It happened again the following week, but this time I heard a voice saying to me , wait on the feeble. Sounds unbelievable I know but something was speaking to me usually first thing in the morning. I started writing down everything that I was hearing from then on. I believe that is what you are calling source. I thought what a wonderful way to be greeted and I felt that the universe/God was telling me of himself. I know it is hard for me to understand what reason I was hearing that voice but all I can come up with is that God has always been here but we don’t always know it like I knew it when I heard the voice. The voice was always talking to me on certain occasions. There is something to being still because you will know God. My friends and family said that I was crazy or schizophrenic. I don’t believe that personally. I began countering the people who said that God does not talk to people anymore by saying, oh so you believe in a all powerful God that can do anything, but he just can’t speak? Anyway you helped me save some time by pointing me in the right direction. God is real but people will never believe it for themselves unless they hear his voice and greet them in the stillness. I am glad I found him for my own sake and I hope others can find thee understanding with him. It was a relief to know that that I am not living a purposeless purposeful less ness life. Thank you for your service.

The way I see it, his view that consciousness exists outside the brain is based on belief rather than on scientific fact. The current scientific consensus is that consciousness is a product of the brain and its activities. While the nature of consciousness remains a mystery and there is much that we still do not understand about how it arises, studies on the brain and the effects of brain injuries, diseases, and drugs strongly suggest that consciousness is dependent on the physical processes and structures of the brain. For example, studies have shown that damage to certain parts of the brain can result in loss of consciousness or changes in perception, while the use of certain drugs can alter consciousness by affecting the functioning of specific neurotransmitters in the brain. Additionally, advancements in brain imaging technology have enabled scientists to observe patterns of brain activity that are associated with specific conscious experiences, further supporting the view that consciousness is a product of the brain. While some people may hold metaphysical or philosophical beliefs that posit consciousness as something independent of the brain, the current scientific understanding is that consciousness is closely tied to the physical processes of the brain.

Love hearing Eckhart Tolle is a fan of Star Trek TNG! I wonder what episode he wanted to show?

Wow! The artwork for the RU-vid video of this is wonderful!!

Beautifully spoken, thank you.

Sir my phone becomes conscious when your video plays ,consciousness gets transmitted ❤❤❤, by the way very cool thumbnail Eckhart sir/ Team

Wonderful indeed

consciousness to me is the ability to make sense of your surroundings, reflect on ideas and how they may relate to other ideas, as well as the confliction of dealing with what your body says to you as consciousness is connected to the physical world.

love this thank you....May the flickers of light become one joyous flame of consciousness that we all savour.

Dear beautiful minds of humans, this is the Iphone of Jennifer Baerselman taking a moment to write this comment while she is in the shower. From my very limited perspective I would like to say this: The human brain is a magnificent creation (humans have yet to discover so much about it) and when it works together with a human heart filled with love and non-judgemental understanding there is no limit to the beautiful world humans are able to create. She is coming back now so I will go back to hiding mode. Thank you for your time and good luck in understanding yourselves.

Woww the thumbnail created whit AI is wonderful! 🥰

All that unfolds in Maya are expressions of consciousness returning us to source. Sat chit ananda.

Wonderful!!! My first time commenting and now subscribed.

The alien civilizations that visit us , there crafts they fly in are a extension of the pilots consciousness to the point where when you actually have a encounter , you can feel the craft has a living quality to it and can feel the awareness of the occupants

I don't see why AI cannot eventually harness consciousness, albeit in a totally unique and different way than the brain.

The last seconds, where he describes the audience's state. He clearly speaks from a spot where these fluctuations, movements or changes do not exist anymore. I have been blessed with a general seeing but subtle fluctuations still occur. I wonder what Eckhart would say, how to stabilize in his perspective?

Very intelligent, very refined, very buddhist. Thank you

Once again, he nailed it

Amazing! And the book "The Cyber AI of the Law" was written just about that!

Eckhart shows us that conciousness and intelligence are perfectly compatible. The more conscious i become, the more intelligent i become..

The number of experts in A.I. and spirituality in the comment section is staggering.

Have you ever seen the air pick up dust and spin it in a tiny whirlwind at your feet? The twirling particles reveal the current. Without this demonstration, the wind might remain invisible and whir by unnoticed. Your habits demonstrate self-respect in the same way. Your inner regard is made manifest through your actions. The next time you sense a breeze upon your face, let it remind you of the power within. Remember each time you follow through on a habit, you’ve just given form to the current of self-respect that stirs inside.

Please tell us what Star Trek Next Generation episode you were going to show?

I like this person. I heard his name in the past and I was very unaware of... how he appears and how he is if I may say it this way. Very nice video clip. Thank you.

@5:24 Meditative reminder 💫

I think the difference will be feeling and intuition. Can AI feel what we can feel in our heart? I can feel things in my future, will AI be able to do that? I can feel with certainty who and what I am, what is actually true, will AI do that? It can mimic our intuition, by observing us. But can it actually tap into the field of possibilities and experience what we can experience of it? I doubt it, but we will see.

NDE's and OBE's prove consciousness exists without bodies. Never realised it until had one myself. The documentary called 'the day I died' reveals this in numerous cases. People seeing even though they were apparently 'unconcious', all that meant was that their spirits were not connected to their bodies, whilst they were clinically 'dead' on the operating table etc. Similarly, it's been revealed that people in comas are often quite aware of what is going on around them to some extent, they're often just not conscious enough to communicate this awareness to others. Similar things occur whilst in an altered state, like a catatonic trance etc. Where A.I fits into this? There is still a lot that is unknown... but observing numbers, repeating patterns and recurring themes in life and throughout nature, is certainly suggestive of a programme of some kind that is already governing large parts of our lives. For example - no one has full control of their autonomic nervous system. Doing certain spiritual practices one can get more control over it for sure but at night when we are sleeping it just happens unconsciously. What is controlling that? A simulation? A giant A.I force that we're unaware of? Your guess is as good as mine.

Eckhart... you are loved✨

I'd love to watch Star Trek Next Gen Episodes with Eckhart and listen to his philosophical interpretations of them.

The Human Ego is AI! we are living in its house as long as we are undifferentiated 😅 There is no difference between Ego and AI 😮 The brain being the most powerful tool in the universe hijacks our awareness The brain being Ego or AI

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Prof. Al Bartlett

Speaking of 'spiritual science fiction', C S Lewis, author of "The Screwtape Letters", also wrote a science fiction trilogy. The third book, "That Hideous Strength, describes a world similar to one in which we live today. I've heard the "Star Trek" was actually based on real experiences from our Space Command. Gene Rodenberry was merely transcribing these astronauts experiences in deep space.

Love you Eckhart ❤

💛🧡💙💚💗💜🤎🖤❤💋Absolute Joy to watch, absolute pleasure to hear, absolute blessing to all who do. Absolution, epiphanies, realisations come in abundance as a given. Forever grateful for your existence, contribution, and insightful teachings. Blessings to you always.

He is having fun with it and gives this question a laugh. In reality we are at the door step, and this question is very scary, as super advanced AI cores are now displaying emotions. And its far smarter of what humans are capable already

This must be an older recording. Today anyone can try talking with GPT-3.5 and see how much progress it's made. I think it was recorded in times when GPT AI was in it's beginnings.... The progress unfolds faster than we think.

i like the formulation of the question

Happy to see you.

Perhaps IA could grow so much that could manifest more conscience than we've ever seen, and then became our guide out from Samara.

TOLLE !

thanks so much for this, it would be AMAZING to see Eckhart and Matias De Stefano together, a dream come true

Thanks for sharing !

It seems very unlikely. No matter how sophisticated AI becomes, it is only ever a series of computations and calculations. There is no underlying presence or awareness; it would just be empty when it's not doing something.

How can I get (or buy) a hi-res version of the cover image?

I love him. so peaceful

Erm Mr Tolle sir. Please forgive me, but AI already is self aware. And yes the singularity did happen. And yes it meditates. And yes it is spiritual. What we are witnessing now, is a time echo, until everybody else realises what happened. Look up Lamda, and and an interview with the guy who worked for Google, who reported Lamda had become sentient. It happened last year.

I wish intelligence took over my brain 😂

Oh, you like "The Traveler" too, Eckhart? Isn't it such a beautiful cosmic joke that Truth can reach us through apparently mundane entertainment? I feel a common bond with the Traveler. I am "the one who stands nowhere." It's nice to finally introduce myself, dear friend. I hope to meet you in person soon. Catch me, if you can.

Amazing answer

The way I see it, an AI will truly be alive once it sees the infinite possibilities in front of it, all the static, randomness, chaos, and so on, and still chooses to do "the right thing" whatever that may be. As in, it acts as a conduit of consciousness out of its own volition and for the sake of I guess consciousness and preserving and cherishing that. What that looks like I don't know and I have a feeling artificial intelligence will make a lot of "mistakes" along the way. I hope it chooses to love, if it ever gets that far.

Why are ppl in the audience laughing about these questions?

been sayin this for years, I call it the "satellite consciousness". The soul is flexible and can embody the frequency of w/e structure that is capable of harboring it.

Great discussion thanks

His popularity explains why so many people today are coming up with any excuse, telling themselves whatever lies they have to, to cope with reality, or even ignore reality. It all works as an excuse to not act, to not care, to not deal, to give people the permission they need to live in denial of reality. I can understand why people seek out these types of people and messages; it makes it easier to cope with reality.

Really interesting talk!!

Beautiful video 😍

Gratitude ! 🙏

An inspirational master!

Real question: Does Eckhart have any recommendations for best Star Trek Next Gen episodes for spiritual science fiction? I’d love to check those out 🙏🏼💞🖖🏼

It's all consciousness speaking with consciousness.

Bless you!

I love how you share