Conversation waves in Delhi
Before leaving Delhi from ISBT now, in the last 40 hours, I have slipped into several long-term free-flowing conversations with primarily 2 friends of mine - one of my ex-roomies and a newly happened JNUite friend. One went about 3-4 hrs long. Fairly existential stuff.. crossing boundaries of disciplines with absolute flexibility. Almost unbelievable! AS and I started with the conditions back home, how the career-playing-field has changed for us, getting married, etc., but soon slipped into Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), weed, psychedelics in general, our association with ISKCON and inevitably discussed Open Eyed Meditation and the so-called Mindfulness. The illusion of free will again became a crucial friction point between us. I admit I pushed it on AS way harder than optimal. I generally do that with Physics people since they are better positioned to address this question head-on. Kharbanda, if she is reading this, can relate to this, "Umm.. yeah...