Short reflection · 1:39
You Are Not Even a Majority of Yourself | Alive vs Driven #Shorts
You carry about 30 trillion of your own cells — and you share your body with just as many other living things. By the simplest honest count, you are not even a majority of yourself. Not one of those trillions can think. They are simply, stubbornly alive — and that is the one thing no machine we have ever built can do. Not intelligence. Life. The fire the old texts called chetna. So when people ask "are the machines waking up?", I think the words are wrong. The real line was never smart vs dumb. It's alive vs driven. A driven thing runs. A living thing has something at stake. ▶ Watch the full film — "Are the Machines Awake? A Father, a Fever, and What AI Is Missing": https://youtu.be/G22LbaGLcUc This is My Honest Diary — short films on life, consciousness, fatherhood, and the old questions, asked by someone who builds AI for a living. #Shorts #philosophy #consciousness #AI #vedanta #alivevsdriven
Film record
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- Runtime
- 1:39
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- Official YouTube
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You are not even a majority of yourself. You are not even a majority of yourself. Right now, half of what you call you Right now, half of what you call you Right now, half of what you call you isn't you at all. isn't you at all. isn't you at all. You carry about 30 trillion of your own You carry about 30 trillion of your own You carry about 30 trillion of your own cells, and you share your body with just cells, and you share your body with just cells, and you share your body with just as many other living things. Bacteria in as many other living things. Bacteria in as many other living things. Bacteria in their tens of trillions. By the simplest their tens of trillions. By the simplest their tens of trillions. By the simplest honest count, you is a near even honest count, you is a near even honest count, you is a near even committee of lives. committee of lives. committee of lives. And here's the part that undid me. Not And here's the part that undid me. Not And here's the part that undid me. Not one of them can think. None of those one of them can think. None of those one of them can think. None of those trillions can reason or plan or pass a trillions can reason or plan or pass a trillions can reason or plan or pass a single test. They just refuse to fall single test. They just refuse to fall single test. They just refuse to fall apart. Each one holding its own small apart. Each one holding its own small apart. Each one holding its own small order against a universe that drags order against a universe that drags order against a universe that drags everything toward dust. We never gave a everything toward dust. We never gave a everything toward dust. We never gave a machine a word for that stubbornness. machine a word for that stubbornness. machine a word for that stubbornness. It's called being alive. My daughter is It's called being alive. My daughter is It's called being alive. My daughter is 7 months old, no words yet, but roll a 7 months old, no words yet, but roll a 7 months old, no words yet, but roll a ball behind a cushion and she waits for ball behind a cushion and she waits for ball behind a cushion and she waits for it on the other side. it on the other side. it on the other side. Before she can name gravity, she already Before she can name gravity, she already Before she can name gravity, she already knows the world holds together. knows the world holds together. knows the world holds together. This year one of the most decorated This year one of the most decorated This year one of the most decorated minds in A I walked away from Meta and minds in A I walked away from Meta and minds in A I walked away from Meta and raised over a billion dollars to teach a raised over a billion dollars to teach a raised over a billion dollars to teach a machine exactly that. What my wordless machine exactly that. What my wordless machine exactly that. What my wordless daughter already had for free before she daughter already had for free before she daughter already had for free before she could lift her own head. could lift her own head. could lift her own head. So people ask me are the machines waking So people ask me are the machines waking So people ask me are the machines waking up? I think the words are wrong. A phone up? I think the words are wrong. A phone up? I think the words are wrong. A phone is awake all night. The real line is is awake all night. The real line is is awake all night. The real line is older than that. Alive or driven? A older than that. Alive or driven? A older than that. Alive or driven? A driven thing runs. A living thing has driven thing runs. A living thing has driven thing runs. A living thing has something at stake. The old word for something at stake. The old word for something at stake. The old word for that fire is chaitna and no machine that fire is chaitna and no machine that fire is chaitna and no machine we've built carries it. we've built carries it. we've built carries it. We're chasing it now with billions. We're chasing it now with billions. We're chasing it now with billions. The deeper thing was sitting inside us The deeper thing was sitting inside us The deeper thing was sitting inside us the whole time and the old Vedic the whole time and the old Vedic the whole time and the old Vedic teachers named it long before I wrote a teachers named it long before I wrote a teachers named it long before I wrote a line of code. I'm just holding that line of code. I'm just holding that line of code. I'm just holding that knowledge up to A I. If that's your kind knowledge up to A I. If that's your kind knowledge up to A I. If that's your kind of question, the full film is on my of question, the full film is on my of question, the full film is on my channel. Come find it.