Samkhya says the effect pre-exists in the cause, the substrate is inert, and discernment comes before the self. Read as a design note for AGI, it says most of our alignment vocabulary is pointed at the potter and the clay decides more.
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Yoga and the mind
The oldest engineering manual for awareness, read by someone who builds minds for a living.
4 pieces
- EssayOct 17, 2026Every mind has a material cause
- VedāntaFeb 22, 2026The seer who saw both
The end of the Veda and, its teachers insist, the end of thought. One set of texts read four ways: the world as appearance, as God's body, as God's dependent, as God himself.
PhilosophyBeauty - YogaOct 8, 2023A road out of the clay
Sāṃkhya explained how consciousness gets caught in matter, and admitted it had no way out. Patañjali's Yoga is that way: a discipline rather than a theory, and the word does not mean what the studios think it means.
PhilosophyThe human experience - SāṃkhyaMar 12, 2023The clay before the pot
The oldest of the six and the one most often called scientific. Its first move is the question every creation story skips: a maker can shape a pot, but where did the clay come from?
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