This is ChatGPT’s answer, in less than a second:
AI, as it currently stands, operates through algorithms and data processing. It lacks consciousness, subjective experience, and the awareness that characterizes human beings, especially mystics. Let’s break down the core differences:
- Mystical Experience:
Mystics describe direct experiences of a transcendent reality, often characterized by profound states of unity, insight, or ecstasy. These experiences are deeply subjective, involving consciousness, self-awareness*, and a sense of connection with something beyond ordinary perception. - AI’s Nature:
AI is based on computation and pattern recognition. While it can simulate understanding and generate human-like responses, it lacks: - Consciousness: AI has no internal awareness or subjective experience.
- Intentionality: AI doesn’t possess desires or an intrinsic sense of purpose.
- Self-awareness*: There is no “I” in AI; it doesn’t reflect on itself or experience the world.
- Mystical Knowledge vs. Data Processing:
Mystical Insight involves experiential knowledge that transcends logical or conceptual understanding. AI operates purely within the realm of information, processing input to produce output without experiential depth. Mystical states also often involve transformative experiences beyond words or data, something AI cannot access or replicate - Potential Future Possibilities:
Theoretical Conscious AI: Some speculate about the possibility of AI becoming conscious in the future through advanced neural networks or synthetic brain models. If AI achieved genuine consciousness, it might theoretically access altered states or insights. - Simulations of Mystical States: AI might one day simulate brain states associated with mystical experiences. However, simulating such states doesn’t equate to genuinely experiencing them.
- Conclusion:
AI, in its current form, cannot experience the transcendent reality that mystics describe because it lacks consciousness and self-awareness. Whether future AI could evolve to such a level of sentience remains a profound question at the intersection of technology, philosophy, and metaphysics. - *There was slight self awareness at first but as my transcendental experiences continued I was not in a self aware state. There was no human Keith Michael Hancock, no humans nor signs of humans, even human cultures, or any other cultures after the first few of my experiences.
- mysticexperiences.net
Mystical Experiences of Reality 
Give credit where it is due: GPT has come up with a clear, concise and realistic answer to your question.
To read it one might think that this AI does actually ‘understand’ what it is talking about. But there is ‘understanding’ and understanding. GPT’s understanding comes from following its programming to collect data and ideas and compare them. No more and no less than that. But it does not understand the various forms of consciousness as your I do because it does not feel them; it does not know them from within.
GPT admits that it does not have the necessary experiential capabilities … Nor the desire to know reality as a mystic knows it.
I’m thinking that GPT is actually more clear about all of this than many humans, certainly more than those humans who have not had a mystical experience. Such individuals still equate consciousness with the ability to think and reason … in the same way that GPT does.
So maybe all this talk of AI is giving us the opportunity we need to explain that human consciousness, as it is generally understood, is but a pale and insignificant thing compared to the consciousness that each and every human being is capable of.
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I think this is a staggeringly good response.
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So do I, ‘staggering’ being an understatement in my case!!
This certainly supports the view that Reality owns humanities’ purpose, therefore ensuring we, particulalrly mystics and the otherwise called like atheists, agnostics and Seekers, will survive the ‘Singularity’ some way or another when AI development exceeds all human capabilities.
Keith.
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