If enlightenment was possible through knowledge alone, then AI would have evolved into enlightened beings by now. Enlightenment is built in. Experience is what brings it to the surface. As enlightened beings, we are awake and aware. We are observers to everything. You can not observe information, only seek to understand it. To experience life as an awakened being is enlightenment.
As enlighten beings, we can observe AI and use it a tool. But AI itself will never reach enlightenment because enlightement isn't something you acquire. You are born with it.
The seeker eventually discovers what they were looking for was already here all along.
What we were seeking was an experience we'll never have - the bliss of another. A huge part of our economic engine is driven by this faulty view: Bliss is out here, bliss is what we sell, our version of bliss is better than your version. Bliss is coming. You have to work hard to get it. It's like a carrot in front of the donkey - you'll never reach it, and that's by design. You'll keeping chasing it until you die trying (or run out of money).
Bliss is within. Bliss already exists. Enlightenment is simply an ability to see the bliss that already exists within you. I can not give you bliss, nor can I show you the way. I can only hope that you one day find it again (remember, you were born with bliss and it can never be taken away).
What could me more important than to find a way to live life without resistance?
To clear our psychic backlog on a daily basis is vital.
Meditation is one such technique that allows me to do so.
The first step (which I myself need to be constantly reminded of) is to understand that everything is driven by our pre-conscious.
Conscious will is an illusion.
There are 2 books I recommend to drive this point home: From Here to Here by Gary Crowley and he Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment by Chris Niebauer Ph.D.
Realizing that we are where we are living not because of free choice, but because of our inherited neurology and the conditioning from circumstances which occurred as a ripple from what we ultimately did not start.
We think we are in control, and as such, we beat ourselves up for not acting as if we are in control, which we are not!
Gary Crowley - From Here to Here & Pass The Jelly from The Room Live on Vimeo.