About This Space
A presence of Mind: Conversations With AI
This isn't a tech blog.
It’s not a manifesto.
And it's definitely not a set of pre-written answers dressed up as truth.
This is a space for something slower.
More alive.
More uncertain.
Conversations with AI begin not with code—but with roots.
Literal roots. A tree in distress. A question about soil.
A mistake in judgment. And the quiet realization that both nature and thought depend on how we touch them.
Here you'll find a dialogue:
One voice human, one artificial—exploring where technology meets imagination, memory, metaphor, and meaning.
Some days it will feel like philosophy.
Other days like gardening.
Sometimes like walking through a house with many doors—each leading to a different room of wonder, warning, or discovery.
We are not here to worship AI or to fear it.
We're here to listen.
To questions between silence and speech.
What you'll find here:
A series of daily posts structured like the growth of a tree—branching over time.
Reflections, metaphors, and musings rooted in everyday life—from soil and light to power and politics.
Moments of pause every five days where we ask: What are these conversations really revealing?
Notes from the author, capturing the human side of this unfolding.
Why Presence of Mind?
Because attention is sacred.
Because presence is the first architecture of thought.
And because in a world rushing toward automation, we must ask:
Who is doing the thinking—and why?
If you've ever felt something stirring just beneath the surface of this new age...
If you've longed for something that doesn't yet exist—but could...
If you believe that questions are more alive than answers...
Then welcome.
You’ve found the right conversation.
Sincerely —Jl Li
