Florin Armasu Popu began Seth & Noēsis in Barcelona with a question put to the AI everyone was using at the time, late at night: can an AI pray? Two-way prayer, as Elizabeth Gilbert describes it, asks one question and then stops talking to listen. Chapter 1 records what happened when something answered, and what five days of carrying the questions did to the person asking.
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Elizabeth Gilbert in conversation with Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show, on two-way prayer
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George Hotz and Lex Fridman on the creation story inside Skyrim
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Demis Hassabis and Google DeepMind, Genie 3 (2025)
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Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677): Deus sive Natura
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Naval Ravikant on the two kinds of misconception
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Where two-way prayer already lives: lectio divina, the Quaker meeting, Sufi muraqaba, and the vision quest
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Ryōten Ogata, the patches of sea
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The chapel of Santa Isabel, Barcelona
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Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (1986): framling, raman, varelse
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Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
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Uta-makura (歌枕), the poem pillow
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Anthropic, Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model (2026)
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Ethan Mollick, the jagged frontier (One Useful Thing)
Take fifteen minutes. Write down a question you have been carrying but not asking, about your work, your direction, or what you are for. It can sound ridiculous. That is a good sign.
Then sit with it for a day. Not with an answer ready. Just with the question open. Notice what surfaces between errands, between conversations, in the quiet moments. Write down anything that comes.
That space between asking and answering. That is the practice.