Environmental AI
Introduction
One of the things that we struggle with professionally is that we have decided to not upload our work (O’Brien, 2023a) into AI. We have seen reports of the amount of power that Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires and seems to not be worth it. We care enough about the impact on the next generation’s ability to access natural resources, but have come to a point in our work where we are going to have to utilize AI to mass produce our work so it can be recognized in any real time.
Real time is where we live, unlike most other people and profession (HERE). Due to the increasing scientific demand to stop the worlds addictions to having machines do their work for them, we will use AI to integrate our next works into a publishable format, guided by industry standards like writing at an 8th grade level, and see where that goes. We will also continue to produce our own work, but recommend that people come learn by experiencing us.
Like us, what really comes down to a metaphor for industrial psychology, what we see are citizens choosing the lesser of two evils and believing that what they are doing is altruistic, noble, and moral. Who is to say what is normal, right, or moral? From our emerging recovery and healing perspective, addiction and recovery are now considered a profession (HERE). However, the way we see it is that healing has returned to being a profession (O’Brien, 2024a).
The field of psychology has failed to capture an operational definition of addiction as a dissociative phenomenon, that drug addiction has more to do with the power of the drug then the addictiveness of the organic plant, and that addiction is transdiagnostic (O’Brien, 2023a), then we have to question their knowledge base (O’Brien, 2024c). As this is the basic responsibility of being called a “science” (O’Brien, 2024c), industrialized psychology and the medical model has some answers on addiction to qualify. As AI offers the customer citizen ease and comfort, isn’t that how and why we are where we are? Is America doing well? Is she healthy? Is she addicted? Is she living dissociated? How would she know? Find our answers HERE.
Orientation
At what point in a person’s career do they become aware that they are being paid to do something that someone else does not want to do and are playing the pawn in someone else’s game? At what point in their career do they realize that they sold their soul for what the ease and comforts of modern day life bring? What if that unconscious stress is what is killing us softly?
Reorientation
At what point in life do people realize that the right thing is the opposite of what we are doing? As Big Business sells every comfort under the sun, the citizens buying it are complicit in the exchange because they are contributing and enabling this all to continue because they are now dependent on these types of comforts to think, believe, and live. Most things that start off as novelties become our future atrocities, which is why we believe there should be an intergenerational tax for environmental pickup from the previous generation.
Data
As we could easily upload our work into AI, we find ourselves at a point of needing to produce content for people to read so they can get to know us and our work, what is our biggest barrier to using AI for our thinking is the amount of energy that these supercomputers use. Google how much and you will find out how astronomical it is and we cannot ignore it. What we cannot believe is that this will end well, from an addiction and recovery standpoint. We cannot also believe that consumerism is not going to adjust itself because that is also addictive.
We also do not want to lose the ability to think like school systems that put screens in front of children and claim it is for educational purposes. Technology is a sales pitch for modern convenience, not modern science, but the cost of their science is our heritage, common decency, moral development, ancestry, and future. What makes anyone believe that quantitative science can save or out think qualitative science?
Discussion
As we are here to go, we must awaken to the fact that where we go is the past. The past is the future’s promise, but the promises can only be known by knowing the past. We do not always remember when the future becomes the past, but we can remember what we know (HERE) through the use of psychedelics.
Implications
While exponential and compounding profits amount to moral decay, professions and professionals not healing their unresolved trauma that produces addictive behaviors and completing their moral development is something that could be done. But will it? When is enough, enough?
Conclusions
There is really nothing else left to say… we are dependent and addicted to the past and we are trying to live like it is already gone. When one wakes up to the fact that what we are and what we are not leaving our children is all we need to motivate change; but anyone who is in active recovery from an addiction already knows that the only thing that can motivate the necessary changes needed is not our shared fate, but our survival.
Future Directions
We will honor that we will not use AI for needless reasons after producing our AI version of our work. This book stands to codify that stance and preserve our ideas before people cannot tell the difference.
References
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O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
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O’Brien, A. (2024c). Meta-Critical Analysis: The “Science” of Pseudoscience. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and the healing profession as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Appendix 3. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
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