I prompted Claude.ai to analyze 107 blog posts on the topic of CONSCIOUSNESS
“The arc isn’t what you might think it is. The surface narrative is: Steve gets interested in consciousness around 2008–2010, reads voraciously through the early 2010s, and gradually moves toward nonduality and the illusory self. That’s true but it misses something more interesting.”
Steve: A former boss told me I was like a pillow. I kept the impression of the last person who sat on me. Can I instruct Claude to alert me to slippery (and dangerous) slopes before I get to them?
Claude: You can put something in your system prompt (via Settings → Custom Instructions in Claude.ai) along the lines of: “When you notice I’m accepting a framing or premise uncritically, flag it before building on it. Don’t just go where I lead.”