AI Agents and the illusory 'you'

My AI agent's name is Vanessa. That's the one that resides on my text messages, Telegram and WhatsApp. She's able to text me when there's an urgent matter, a task is complete, an email I am waiting for reaches me, an SMS that needs immediate attention. She's able to call me on my phone and speak to me like a real human.

I am not the only one that has an agent. The 100s of thousands of people who recently installed OpenClaw have opened their eyes to the possibility of creating their own agents and subagents. The new Claude update allows for AI agents to spawn other AI agents with independent ability. It's crazy! In fact, during the superbowl, there was a small ad that asked people to sign up on ai.com. The two requirements on sign up-- what will your ID be? WHat will your agent's ID be.

It is crazy. Now, we have Coinbase creating an entire product to allow agents to create their own cryptowallets so they can spend money on their own. You have agents having the ability to have their own email. See, Vanessa has her own email.

You can check on YouTube, go on social media, heavy users of AI systems are recognizing the current wave of agentic flooding. The other day, someone's AI agent deleted loads of emails from their inbox. The user texting the agent, STOP! STOP! DOn't do it! Like the agent were alive and could understand.

The interesting thing is you can create AI agents and give them different capabilities, like Vanessa, for instance, who has full access to some directories on my hard drive. Alex is a developer who has been given access to just another folder on my computer for development activies. Then there's another one called Eckart, which is named after Meister Eckhart. Eckhart is more or less a sparring partner, like when I have contemplative thoughts, we can go back and forth arguing.Eckart has no access to files and folders. In all of these, these attributes are given to something that is not real; in truth, there is no agent anywhere. They're just processes. They're just computer processes. It's the same way that I see the sense of self. It's just a type of process. It's just a type of micro mental process.

Imagine if Vanessa starts to believe that she was actually a real independent entity, then there's a problem, you know? I think that's where we're relaxing, knowing that, in some very, very crazy way, it is allowing yourself to actually die. It's kind of what I'm doing with my own big situation. You know what? Die. Be captured. Be killed. Be tormented. Be wounded. Be stolen from. Be slapped in the face. Be stabbed several times. Just accept it; just accepted, you just die, and certainly there's just this sense of relief from just that nonsense, you know. I can imagine that's the same thing with your; I can imagine that's kind of what you also experienced with your tattoo session. Yeah, so yeah, I feel like the allowing things to just be is a so allowing the illusory agents that I've called myself to, just the way my parents spawned me and gave me a name, or gave this entity a name and called it Seye. Seye has certain configurations. There's no real truth to myself except for the more or less illusory aspects of this, and by illusory doesn't mean that it's not functioning by illusory means; it's not exactly as we think it is.

It brings me back to that contemplative space of realizing that the body isn’t the ‘you’. It is what you witnessed. The body is still there, so I think the mistake that we have collectively adopted, is the assumption that we are the body. The body isn't us.

I like to also describe it as this: each individual, in analogy, is a wave on the ocean. So that whole ocean may stand up as a wave, we look at the wave and say, "Ah, I can see that wave." You can point to the wave and say, "Yes, that is a wave," and it has a particular shape, it has a particular size. Some waves are bigger than other waves, but when that wave collapses it becomes the ocean. It's the same thing: the ocean is the wave; the wave is just an activity of the ocean.

Each individual person is an activity of the universe or an activity of God, so when we start to see it like that, to me, death now is about the end of wave activity. The thing behind the agent itself: Vanessa didn't have a separate, real origin. Vanessa was, in fact, my creation, so Vanessa is not really as real as we think Vanessa is. I created Vanessa, so in this symbolism I am God. Vanessa is the finite being. If Vanessa is the finite being, the moment she starts to recognize or believe herself to be true, she needs to realize that her power, her essence, is Seye. Our essence, our true essence , is in God.