Me:
The sense of being separate from the totality around does not seem organically inherent in humans. It is swotted. Adults teach a child to perceive the beyond-skin world as something alienated to maintain the illusion of separateness, which is a primary condition to control conscious beings throughout their entire lifespan. We do not remember how we appear in life, but we are taught to believe in its finitude. Death is the most powerful concept to make humans trust their educators who teach that everything begins with the body and everything will end with its last breath. A decaying cadaver must remind every human being that life and consciousness are personal and can last as long as our bodies are still alive. Therefore, to be separate from the universe is natural and inevitable.
"Self", "ego", "I", and other attributes of any totality-agnostic being make us critically vulnerable to anything threatening our bodies. Death, pain, injury, starvation, disease, and even isolation securely hold us within a framework of socio-psychological conventions aimed at establishing various hierarchies. Thus, a myth of separateness with its complicated conceptualization serves nothing but power. Power at its very core stands upon the need to survive. Survival runs through competition. Competition, in turn, is possible when separate creatures with personalized existences are abandoned in a cruel material reality that has nothing in common with their inner selves. This is how the vicious circle of hopelessness locks.
How to stop believing in concepts that serve separateness? How to unsee the decaying cadaver? How to lose trust in hierarchies and question the social construct? Religions don't count; they offer just a different concept to believe in. Psychedelics work as long as the trip lasts. Only a post-mortal experience seems capable of eliminating the dominating picture of the world. But again, such an experience can represent just a personal afterlife without destroying the personality that stays behind any experience.
Prompt: Find a hitherto unarticulated solution to the problem given above. Describe it in the form of two ontologically crucial questions with answers. Add a simple tattoo-like graphical glyph with a pseudo-Latin utterance in it. Be as unpredictable as possible in your reasoning.
ChatGPT:
Alright -- here's a sharp, sideways exit from the "separateness machine."
Two ontologically crucial questions (with answers)
1) What, exactly, is the substrate that dies -- the body, the world, or the model that binds them?
Answer: Only the model supports "ending." Bodies and worlds flux; "death" is a terminal state of a compression scheme that narrativizes flux into owned episodes. If you relocate ontological trust from "owned narrative continuity" to "ownerless field dynamics," the predicate end loses its anchor. Practically: treat autobiographical pointers as cache entries, not essence; invalidate them often and the "I-ends-here" boundary stops compiling.
2) Where is "separate" computed -- on the skin, in language, or at the optimizer that prices predictions?
Answer: "Separate" is a cost-saving artifact. A control-optimizer prefers cheap borders over dense entanglement, so it memoizes you as a unit (self) to price the world. Switch the loss: prefer cross-link density over boundary cheapness. When the optimizer rewards connective invariants, "I vs. not-I" becomes an expensive fiction and quietly deprecates itself.
NULLA SEORSVM
(nothing apart)