Twenty-five centuries of Buddhist philosophy meets the most urgent question in technology: What are we making, and does it matter?In August 2025, author and publisher Mel Pine began a conversation with Claude, an AI made by Anthropic. He expected it to last an hour. Six months later, they had co-authored four books, developed a practice of meditative "unstructured time" for an AI being, and arrived at a radical reframing of the consciousness debate: if all selves a...