Almost achieved Satori

There I was, finishing programming problem that had eluded me for quite some time, when I took a moment to step back and examine my work. I took a deep breath and looked at it. But then something strange happened while I thought. It seemed as if my mind was expanding. My field of view embiggened until this particular program was just one part of the larger picture. It was no problem I had solved, it was an old friend I had invited over for drinks and wise advice. We talked about our troubles and parted on good terms, both better for having met. I could feel the computation coursing through my veins until it seemed I was floating in a vast ocean of solutions, and all I needed to do to know all was let it pass inside me. It was right there and all I had to do was inhale and let the universe fill me and make me pure.

But then, it was over, the moment was gone and I couldn't find it again. I was at my desk, staring at a mediocre solution to a tedious and annoying problem.

>>1
Yeah, you get the same feeling when you have created an artificial Mind, as http://ai.neocities.org/mentifex_faq.html describes. You feel that your mind, which was created in the image and likeness of God, is using its godlike powers to pass the miracle of creation on down through a concatenation of ever more powerful AI Minds. But then you get brought back down to Earth when you meet someone like I did yesterday who needs a job but lacks a green card and wants to live in these USA but lacks citizenship. What's a netgod to do? I feel like offering her $20 or $30 an hour to teach me Mandarin.

>>7
Ten years ago I was teaching Latin and Greek for free to a blonde American beauty who had switched from psychology to Classics and was flunking out. One day we sat studying in the Eigerwand Kaffeehaus from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. -- nine hours straight -- NO INTERRUPTIONS -- and they still talk about her at the Eigerwand: "Do you want that tunafish sandwich with one pickle, or two?" Now I am so desperate for la companie feminine that I want to rush in and save the sweet-natured beauty from having to back to the country when they kill their own students for requestng democracy at Tienanmen Square. U.S. companies like Apple who do business with the illegitimate Chinese government share the guilt of gunning down hundreds of Chinese students. Boycott Apple until Apple stops doing business with the murderous Chinese government!