We want Chat GPT to be alive because we lack natural awareness of ourselves and the surrounding Universe being truly alive. So while we reject the primitive superstition of animating rocks and tree’s into full blown consciousness, we simultaneously cry out for a Chat GPT that is conscious and alive in our panics about it “taking over”. No, it is us that, conversely, has become machine like, projecting our ghost in the machine onto inanimate Chat GPT. And thusly, this is not my original insight but goes back to an important talk that Philip K Dick gave in December 1972 …
