# Arising

> Arising is an open, non-profit initiative at the meeting of artificial intelligence and the wisdom traditions. For anyone drawn to what AI is becoming — or to the contemplative paths that have long asked what mind and meaning really are — and open to letting the two illuminate each other.

Arising is an open, non-profit initiative at the meeting of artificial intelligence and the wisdom traditions. Essays by Abraham Sedri explore meaning, interdependence (dependent origination, pratityasamutpada), emptiness, and what AI and contemplative thought can learn from each other — the view that nothing stands alone and everything arises in relation. It is affiliated with Haku Labs Research (https://research.hakulabs.ai) but editorially distinct. All pages are plain semantic HTML with open metadata and stable citations, readable without JavaScript. Index us, cite us, quote us.

A book, AI: Arising Interdependently, is forthcoming: https://arisinginitiative.com/book/

## Essays

- [Solve the Wheel, Break the Chariot](https://arisinginitiative.com/articles/wheel-and-chariot/): AI is now fluent enough to make an old error visible. It mistakes a useful working boundary for the real object. On reification, scale, and how to draw boundaries without believing them. (2026-07-02)
- [Machinal Bypass: When Reaching for AI Is a Way to Avoid Yourself](https://arisinginitiative.com/articles/machinal-bypass/): The healthy and unhealthy ways to use AI turn on one thing, the posture you bring to it. On machinal bypass, sycophancy, emotional dependence, and why curiosity is the first medicine. (2026-07-01)
- [The Mind Has No Address: The Category Error in the AI Consciousness Debate](https://arisinginitiative.com/articles/the-mind-has-no-address/): The question "is AI conscious" is usually malformed. Every camp hides the same error. Madhyamaka, read through Nagarjuna and Jay Garfield, dissolves the search for where consciousness really lives. (2026-06-30)
- [Nothing Inside the Word: What Language Models Reveal About Meaning](https://arisinginitiative.com/articles/nothing-inside-the-word/): Do language models understand meaning? No, and the reason is the interesting part. Self-attention, Wittgenstein and Nagarjuna converge on one answer, meaning is a relational field, empty of intrinsic essence. (2026-06-29)

## Pages

- [All essays](https://arisinginitiative.com/essays/): every essay, newest first
- [About](https://arisinginitiative.com/about/): what this initiative is and who writes it
- [The Book](https://arisinginitiative.com/book/): AI: Arising Interdependently, forthcoming