I am thrilled to today's guest. He's a repeat guest on the show Depak Choper, who's probably the most well-known authority

advisor, guru of self-awareness, spirituality.

He's got a important new book, Digital Dormer, how AI can elevate spiritual intelligence

of personal well-being.

It's out September 17th, also around that same time, September 14th.

He's at the Stages and Scientist Symposium at Harvard.

I mean, Depok has written over 90 books, not 9, not 19, 90 books,

including many New York Times Best Seller, many New York Times bestseller.

So New York Times described Dr. Choper as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.

Welcome to the show, sir.

Thank you.

So what I love about the book is that it's counterintuitive.

You want to, off the top of my head I go AI or that's going to get in the way of self-awareness,

that's got in the way of self-awareness that's got in the way of of spirituality yet the whole

book is about no it opens up all kinds of doors yes so you don't first of all we

should be clear that AI, even though the term is AI, is not inherently

intelligent. What it the universe is a human

construct that came about as a result of language.

I mean even biblically people say first there was the word when the word was with God and etc.

So about 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens, we as a species, we actually took a different path from all other organisms, including other hominids.

Hominids means human-like creatures, you know, homo erectus, Neanderthals, fluorescence, etc.

We were part of a family of hominids that included eight different species of human-like organisms, biological

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