Mind is “artificial intelligence”.

Mind is the first “robot” that human beings ever made.

In the usual discussions of such matters, artificial intelligence is presumed to be something generated by computers. In actuality, however, language is the first form of artificial intelligence created by human beings.

There is no mind. Mind is a myth. There is language – which is programmed by brains, and which, in turn, programs brains. However, there is no tangible existence to “mind” itself – absolutely none. Nevertheless, human beings identify with the “mind” as “self”, and (thereby) invent destiny for themselves, and even project that self-imagined destiny into an idea of time and space beyond the present physical lifetime.

Mind is an interior projection of a language-program that, in its imaginative elaboration of itself, conceives of purposes and ideas (in the realm of illusion) for which there are no corresponding physical data. Human beings are all living in a “virtual world” of mind. Human beings are, characteristically, self-identified with a “robot”, an artificial intelligence.

Real intelligence is tacit (or intrinsically wordless) living existence…

If you are sensitive to the actual nature of your experience… you actively look (even if only inwardly, in a feeling sense) for Something Greater.

– excerpted from The Ancient Walk-about Way, Adi Da Samraj, 2006