In 1930 Keynes wrote a letter to his grandchildren about a disease called technological unemployment. The letter was addressed to us. If a machine can do what you do, what are you? The terms are being set now.

A machine can now show judgement, taste, patience, even empathy. So what makes a quality yours? Aristotle and Patañjali give one old answer: a path is made by walking it. Answering for where it leads is one more step.

A machine tested in eleven minutes what took Priya’s team a week, and found bugs they had missed. That evening she signed a release she could not check. Machines can check their own work now. Only a person can make a decision theirs.

If a machine can do what you do, what are you? Part I asks before it studies the machine: what consciousness is and is not, what eight traditions saw in a person, how a quality becomes yours, and why now.

At Hanuman Ansh, people took off their shoes in a multiplex and stayed through the credits. The building did not need to become a temple. They carried the temple in with them, and that is exactly why devotion needs judgement.

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