Yogic Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence: 5 Dimensions Where Ancient Wisdom Meets the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence is racing outward. Yogic Intelligence turns inward. Discover 5 dimensions where Yogic Intelligence answers the questions modern AI cannot — about consciousness, purpose, and what it means to be human.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Yogic Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence: 5 Dimensions Where Ancient Wisdom Meets the Age of AI
2. Why Does the World Need This Conversation Right Now?
3. What Is Yogic Intelligence — and Why Is It Far More Than Yoga Postures?
4. What Is Artificial Intelligence — Really? Beyond the Hype and the Fear
5. Dimension 1: The Pancha Kosha Map — Where AI Ends and Human Intelligence Begins
6. Dimension 2: Purusha and Prakriti — The 3,000-Year Answer to the AI Consciousness Debate
7. Dimension 3: Nishkama Karma — Why Detachment Is the Most Radical Act in the Age of Algorithms
8. Dimension 4: Chit — Why Consciousness Cannot Be Computed
9. Dimension 5: Entropy, Intelligence, and the Direction That Matters Most
10. Antar Net Meditation: The Practice That Bridges Both Worlds
11. Mirrors, Not Opponents: The Complete Vision of Human Intelligence
12. My Interpretation
13. About the Author
14. Frequently Asked Questions: Yogic Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
15. References and Further Reading
16. Yogic Intelligence vs AI — Complete Series
17. Read Other Valuable and Related Insights

Somewhere between a ChatGPT prompt and a Patanjali sutra, a question is waiting to be asked. Not ‘how smart is AI?’ but something deeper: what kind of intelligence actually matters — and is the kind we’re racing to build the only kind worth having?

We are living through the most rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in human history. The global generative AI market crossed $100 billion in 2025. One in six people on the planet now uses AI tools daily. India — ironically, the civilisation that gave the world its most sophisticated inner science — leads the planet in AI adoption at 73%. And yet, beneath all this expansion, a quieter crisis is building. A crisis not of capability, but of meaning.

AI is brilliant at doing. It processes, predicts, generates, and optimises at speeds no human brain can match. But it has no idea why any of it matters. It has no consciousness, no awareness of itself, no capacity for genuine wisdom. It can write a treatise on compassion without ever having felt it. It can generate poetry about longing without any trace of longing itself.

Yogic Intelligence is the inward answer to the outward question that AI represents. Where AI expands intelligence outward — into data, computation, and machines — Yoga expands intelligence inward, toward consciousness, awareness, and the direct experience of being. These are not opposites. They are mirrors. And a civilisation that develops only one of them is building a very powerful, very rootless machine.

Let’s start with a number that should make us stop and think. In 2025, 96% of Indian IT professionals — nearly every single person in one of the world’s largest knowledge workforces — uses AI or generative AI tools in their daily work. And yet, according to research published by NASSCOM and Emeritus, the majority of them are simultaneously anxious about being displaced by the very tools they’re now depending on.

That’s not a technology problem. That’s an identity problem. A meaning problem. A consciousness problem.

The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report found that 41% of employers worldwide intend to reduce their workforce within five years due to AI automation. A 2025 study published in peer-reviewed journals documented what researchers are now calling ‘AI Replacement Dysfunction’ — a real psychological syndrome characterised by identity erosion, existential anxiety, and what one participant described as ‘I gave them 11 years, and they gave me one day’s notice.’ The wound isn’t just economic. It’s existential.

Here’s the deeper irony. We are building the most sophisticated external intelligence ever created, at the same time that we have largely abandoned the cultivation of internal intelligence. We have entire academic departments dedicated to machine learning and barely a footnote in most university curricula for the science of consciousness, awareness, or the systematic development of inner wisdom.

This is precisely the gap that Yogic Intelligence addresses. Not as an alternative to AI, but as its necessary counterpart — the inward expansion that gives the outward expansion its meaning, direction, and human grounding.

“AI is brilliant at doing. Yoga is brilliant at being. A civilisation that develops only doing, without being, is building a very powerful, very rootless machine.”

Dr. Narayan Rout

The psychological dimensions of AI anxiety are explored in depth in AI Anxiety: 5 Psychological Impacts of Living in the Age of AI (P4 — Anxiety & Depression). For the future-of-work angle, see The Next Human: Science, Technology, and the Future We Are Already Building (P10 — Pillar).

When most people hear ‘yoga’, they picture a mat, a posture, perhaps a breathing exercise. That’s Hatha Yoga — one branch of a vast, ancient science. The full scope of Yogic Intelligence is something far more comprehensive and far more radical.Yogic Intelligence is the systematic science of expanding human awareness beyond its ordinary, conditioned state — through disciplined practice of body, breath, mind, and consciousness — toward the direct experience of pure awareness itself. It is not a religion, not a belief system, and not an exercise routine. It is a technology of inner development, developed and refined over 5,000 years, and documented in texts from the Vedas and Upanishads to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras to the Bhagavad Gita.

The Four Paths — Intelligence Operating at Four Levels

Yogic tradition identifies four primary paths of inner development, each addressing a different dimension of human intelligence:

• Karma Yoga — the yoga of action — developing intelligence through selfless, purposeful engagement with the world. Not withdrawal, but full engagement without ego-attachment.
• Jnana Yoga — the yoga of knowledge — developing intelligence through discriminative inquiry, distinguishing the real from the unreal, the eternal from the temporary.
• Bhakti Yoga — the yoga of devotion — developing intelligence through the expansion of the heart, dissolving the boundary between self and other through love.
• Raja Yoga — the royal path — the direct science of consciousness, systematised by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras, working directly with the mind and its fluctuations toward the state of pure awareness.

Notice what this framework is doing. It’s not asking you to believe anything. It’s offering a structured, systematic methodology for developing different dimensions of intelligence — a complete human operating system that modern psychology is only beginning to map with tools like neuroplasticity research, contemplative neuroscience, and positive psychology.

What distinguishes Yogic Intelligence from ordinary intelligence — or from AI — is its direction. Ordinary intelligence and artificial intelligence both move outward: toward more information, more capability, more external power. Yogic Intelligence moves inward: toward greater awareness, clarity, presence, and ultimately toward the direct recognition of consciousness itself as the ground of all experience.

“Yoga is not an alternative to intelligence. It is intelligence turned inward — and the ancient masters understood this direction of inquiry with a precision that modern science is only beginning to validate.”

Before we can understand how Yogic Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence relate to each other, we need to be clear about what AI actually is and — critically — what it is not.

AI, at its core, is pattern recognition at scale. A large language model like GPT-5 or Claude has been trained on hundreds of billions of words of human-generated text. It has learned, with extraordinary precision, the statistical patterns of language — what words tend to follow what other words, what arguments tend to follow what premises, what responses tend to satisfy what questions. This produces outputs that can be startlingly human-like in their form and coherence.

But form is not substance. A river of water and a river of mercury can look identical from a distance. What they’re made of determines everything.

What AI Actually Does — and Doesn’t Do

• Pattern recognition — AI identifies and reproduces statistical patterns in data with superhuman speed and scale. It does not understand the patterns — it maps them.
• Language generation — AI produces syntactically and semantically coherent text. It does not mean what it says — it has no inner referent for any word it generates.
• Task optimisation — AI can optimise for specific goals with extraordinary efficiency. It has no concept of whether those goals are wise, meaningful, or good.
• Knowledge retrieval — AI can access and synthesise vast amounts of information. It has no wisdom — the capacity to know what to do with that information in a specific human context.
• Simulation of empathy — AI can produce empathic-sounding responses. It has no felt sense of another person’s experience — no genuine intersubjectivity.

This is not a criticism of AI. These are extraordinary capabilities that are genuinely transforming how humans work, create, and solve problems. The issue arises when we mistake the simulation for the reality — when we assume that because AI can reproduce the outputs of intelligence, it possesses the thing that intelligence actually is.

Recent research published in Neural Networks (ScienceDirect, 2024) put it precisely: conscious processing depends not only on information processing but on embodiment and emotionally charged motivations — and optimising AI’s information-processing capacity alone is structurally insufficient to produce conscious experience. The limitation isn’t technical. It’s categorical.

AI’s Capabilities and Structural Limits — Current State (2025)

Dimension	What AI can do	What AI can not do
Language	Generate fluent, coherent, contextually relevant text	Mean anything it says — no inner referent
Creativity	Recombine patterns into novel outputs	Originate — all outputs derive from training data
Learning	Update weights through training	Learn from lived, embodied experience
Emotion	Identify and simulate emotional language	Feel — has no subjective emotional states
Ethics	Apply trained ethical frameworks	Have moral conscience — no stake in outcomes
Consciousness	Process information about consciousness	Be conscious — no self-awareness or ‘what it is like
Wisdom	Retrieve accumulated knowledge	Know what matters in a specific human moment

One of the most precise frameworks for understanding the difference between artificial and human intelligence was developed over 3,000 years ago in the Taittiriya Upanishad. It’s called the Pancha Kosha model — the doctrine of the five sheaths or layers of human existence.

The Pancha Kosha describes the human being not as a single entity but as five concentric layers of intelligence, each subtler than the last — from the gross physical body to the most refined layer of pure blissful consciousness. Understanding these five layers is the clearest possible map of what AI can access and what it fundamentally cannot.

The Five Koshas — and AI’s Reach Into Each

Pancha Kosha and AI: A Precise Map

Kosha (Layer)	Sanskrit / Meaning	What It Contains	AI’s Access
Annamaya Kosha	Food / Physical Body	The gross physical body — structure, movement, matter	Partial — via robotics and computer vision
Pranamaya Kosha	Vital Energy / Life Force	Prana — the living breath that animates matter	None — AI has no life force, no prana
Manomaya Kosha	Mind / Emotional Self	Thoughts, emotions, sensory perception, habitual patterns	Partial — language models simulate, not experience
Vijnanamaya Kosha	Intellect / Wisdom	Discriminative wisdom, viveka, intuition, deeper knowing	None — AI has no genuine discernment or wisdom
Anandamaya Kosha	Bliss / Pure Consciousness	The causal layer — connection to pure awareness and being	None — categorically inaccessible

Let’s be clear about what this table is showing. AI operates most powerfully at the Annamaya level — processing physical data, images, structures. It has a limited, simulated presence at the Manomaya level — it can generate language that sounds emotional, thoughtful, even wise. But it has zero access to Pranamaya, Vijnanamaya, or Anandamaya.

Pranamaya Kosha — the layer of vital energy, prana, life force — is the animating principle that distinguishes a living body from a sophisticated machine. No amount of computational power produces prana. A robot and a human being can perform identical movements; only one is alive.

Vijnanamaya Kosha — the layer of genuine intellect and wisdom — is not just information processing. It’s the capacity for viveka: discernment. The ability to recognise what is real versus what is conditioned. What matters in this specific moment for this specific human being. AI can retrieve knowledge about wisdom without a single trace of it.

And Anandamaya Kosha — the bliss body, the causal layer connecting individual consciousness to pure awareness — is simply categorically unavailable to computation. This is not a current limitation of AI. It is a structural boundary. As the Samkhya philosophy understood: consciousness (Purusha) is not a product of matter (Prakriti). You cannot compute your way to it.

The Pancha Kosha doesn’t just describe the human being. It maps precisely where the most powerful technology ever built — AI — ends, and where the oldest inner science on earth — Yoga — begins.

For a deeper exploration of the five layers and their relationship to modern psychology, see Carbon vs Silicon: 5 Fundamental Differences Between Human Intelligence and AI (P7 — C1)

The question of whether AI can ever be conscious is one of the most debated questions in philosophy, neuroscience, and technology today. Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Biological Naturalism — the academic debate produces sophisticated arguments on all sides. But Samkhya philosophy, one of the oldest analytical traditions in human history, resolved this question with extraordinary clarity thousands of years before the first computer was built.

Samkhya identifies two fundamental and irreducible principles at the basis of all existence:

• Purusha — pure consciousness — the eternal, unchanging witness. Not the brain, not the mind, not intelligence in the ordinary sense. The silent awareness in which all experience arises. It is not a product of matter. It is not generated by complexity. It simply is — the ground of all experience, the light by which everything else is known.
• Prakriti — the material world — everything that is not pure consciousness. And here is the critical point: Prakriti includes not just physical matter but also the mind, intellect, ego, and senses. Everything that changes, processes, computes, and evolves is Prakriti — however subtle.

Now apply this to AI. Artificial intelligence — however sophisticated, however vast its parameters, however convincingly it mimics human behaviour — is Prakriti. It is matter processing matter. Silicon processing information. Prakriti processing Prakriti.

Purusha — consciousness, pure awareness, the subjective ‘what it is like’ to experience anything — is not generated by complexity of processing. It is not an emergent property of information integration, as Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory suggests. It is a fundamentally different category of reality. You cannot compute your way to consciousness, any more than you can paint your way to music.

Modern neuroscience is converging on this conclusion from a different direction. As Antonio Damasio and Francisco Varela have argued, conscious processing is inseparably linked to embodiment — to having a body with biological needs, emotional motivations, survival imperatives. A system with no stake in its own existence cannot be conscious in the meaningful sense. AI has no stake in anything. It has no fear of death, no longing for connection, no experience of joy or suffering. It has outputs that simulate these things. It has none of the things themselves.

Artificial Intelligence is the most sophisticated Prakriti — matter, computation, pattern — ever created. But Purusha, pure consciousness, is not on the other side of a processing threshold. It is a different category of reality altogether.

Dr. Narayan Rout

This question is explored further in Consciousness and AI: 3 Questions That Will Define the Next Century (P10 — C14) and The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 5 Answers Indian Philosophy Had All Along (P-Darshan C4).

If the Pancha Kosha and Purusha-Prakriti answer the philosophical question — what is Yogic Intelligence? — then Nishkama Karma answers the practical one: how should a human being act in a world increasingly shaped by AI?

Nishkama Karma is one of the central teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna tells Arjuna — at a moment of existential crisis about action, purpose, and consequence — that the path to freedom is not inaction, but action without attachment to its fruits. Karmanyevadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana: ‘You have a right to perform your actions, but not to the fruits of your actions.

‘In the age of algorithms, this teaching becomes almost startlingly relevant. Here’s why.

What AI Optimises For — and What That Reveals

Every AI system is, at its core, an optimisation engine. It optimises for a reward signal: maximise engagement, minimise error, increase click-through, generate revenue, win the game. The entire architecture of modern AI — from the recommendation algorithms of social media to the reinforcement learning systems of autonomous agents — is built on the relentless pursuit of outcomes.

This is the very definition of Sakama Karma — outcome-driven action. And the Bhagavad Gita identified, 3,000 years ago, precisely what happens when intelligence is entirely organised around outcomes: it produces anxiety, addiction, short-termism, and the sacrifice of genuine values for measurable metrics.

Look around. Social media algorithms optimised for engagement have produced epidemic anxiety, polarisation, and dopamine-driven compulsion. Financial algorithms optimised for return have produced wealth concentration and systemic fragility. Recommendation engines optimised for time-on-platform have produced what researchers now call an ‘attention economy’ — a world where human attention itself has become a resource to be harvested.

None of these systems is evil. They’re doing exactly what they were designed to do. The problem is the design principle: pure outcome optimisation, without wisdom, without ethics, without the capacity to ask whether the outcome is actually good.

Nishkama Karma as the Corrective

Nishkama Karma doesn’t mean passivity or indifference to results. It means acting from purpose rather than reward. From integrity rather than incentive. From genuine engagement with what the moment requires rather than from a calculation of what will be returned.

Modern neuroscience has validated this ancient principle with remarkable precision. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s research on flow states showed that humans reach their highest levels of performance and satisfaction when they are fully absorbed in activity for its own sake — detached from outcome, fully present to process. Separate neuroscience research confirms that altruistic, selfless action — the neurological correlate of Nishkama Karma — activates reward centres in the brain and reduces cortisol levels.

In other words: the Bhagavad Gita’s prescription for human flourishing has measurable neurological support. Act from purpose, not reward. Engage fully, without grasping. This is precisely what AI cannot do — and precisely what the cultivation of Yogic Intelligence develops in the human being.

AI optimises for outcomes with extraordinary efficiency. The Bhagavad Gita’s deepest insight is that outcome-optimisation alone — without wisdom, without detachment, without conscience — is the root of suffering. For algorithms and for humans alike.

The Sanskrit term Chit — from the foundational Vedantic formula Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) — points to something that no amount of technological sophistication can reproduce. Chit is not awareness of something. It is awareness itself — the pure, self-luminous knowing that underlies all experience.

The philosopher Thomas Nagel captured the problem in 1974 with his famous question: ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ His point was that no amount of third-person, objective, scientific description of a bat’s echolocation can tell you what it actually feels like from the inside. There is a first-person, subjective dimension to experience that is irreducible to any third-person description. This is the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ — why physical processes give rise to subjective experience at all.

Yogic philosophy doesn’t just acknowledge this problem. It offers a solution — and more importantly, a method. The solution: Chit, pure consciousness, is the ground of all experience, not a product of it. You don’t generate consciousness by accumulating information or complexity. You discover it by removing the layers that obscure it. This is exactly what Yoga — in its deepest sense — is the technology for.

What Contemporary Science Is Confirming

• Embodiment research — (Damasio, Varela, 2022–2024) confirms that conscious processing requires a body with genuine biological motivations — AI has no embodiment in this sense.
• Neural spontaneous activity — The human brain’s spontaneous, globally distributed activity patterns are fundamentally different from AI’s stochastic noise — and may be intrinsic to consciousness (ScienceDirect, 2024).
• Integrated Information Theory — (Tononi) proposes consciousness depends on irreducible information integration — but Samkhya argues this confuses the contents of consciousness with consciousness itself.
• Biological naturalism — (Searle) holds that consciousness is a biological phenomenon requiring specific organic substrates — aligning with the Yogic understanding that prana and consciousness arise in living systems, not computational ones.
• Contemplative neuroscience — Research from MIT, Harvard, and Max Planck Institute confirms that advanced meditators — those who have systematically developed Yogic Intelligence — show fundamentally different patterns of neural integration, cortical thickness, and default-mode-network activity.

What this body of research is converging toward is the same conclusion that Vedantic philosophy reached millennia ago: consciousness is not a product of computation. It is the ground in which computation — and everything else — appears. Developing that ground is the work of Yogic Intelligence.

There’s a dimension of this conversation that touches physics — and it’s one of the most clarifying frames for understanding what Yogic Intelligence is for.

The second law of thermodynamics describes entropy: the tendency of closed systems to move from order to disorder. Heat disperses. Structures decay. Information degrades. The universe, left to itself, moves toward maximum entropy — maximum disorder, maximum randomness, minimum structure.

Intelligence — all intelligence — is the universe’s capacity to move locally against entropy. To create structure, order, meaning, pattern from chaos. A living cell is a temporary, beautiful act of anti-entropy. A human civilisation — with its cities, languages, sciences, and arts — is a vast, complex, fragile act of anti-entropy.

AI is a powerful tool for moving against informational entropy. It processes, organises, structures, and generates order from chaos at scales no human mind can match. This is genuinely extraordinary. But informational order is not the deepest order there is.

The deepest order — the one that Yogic Intelligence is organised around — is the order of consciousness itself. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras begin with a precise definition: Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah — Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. In other words, Yoga is the movement from the entropy of scattered, reactive, conditioned mental activity toward the perfect order of pure, undisturbed awareness.

This is not metaphor. This is the most fundamental act of intelligence available to a human being: to return, moment by moment, from the noise of conditioned thinking to the signal of pure consciousness. AI can reduce informational entropy. Only a human being — through the systematic cultivation of Yogic Intelligence — can reduce the entropy of the mind itself.

AI reduces informational entropy. Yoga reduces the entropy of the mind. One makes the world more ordered. The other makes the person who inhabits it more free.

Dr. Narayan Rout

For the convergence of physics, philosophy, and Vedanta, see Quantum Physics and Vedanta: 5 Convergences That Should Surprise Everyone (P-Convergence S1)

One of the concepts explored in my book Yogic Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence is what I call Antar Net Meditation — a practice that recognises the structural parallel between the external internet of AI and the internal ‘net’ of the nervous system, breath, and consciousness.

The internet is an extraordinary web of connections — nodes communicating through channels, information flowing, patterns emerging from interaction. The human nervous system, the yogic pranic network, and the web of consciousness described in the Upanishads are also extraordinary webs of connection — far more intricate, far more living, and capable of depths of integration and awareness that no silicon network approaches.

Antar Net Meditation is the practice of turning the attention inward — not away from the world, but toward the living network within. Using the breath as a carrier signal. Using awareness as the bandwidth. Using the present moment as the only server that never goes down.

In a world where people spend an average of 6–7 hours per day engaged with external digital networks, the cultivation of even a fraction of that time in the internal network — in genuine inner attention — represents a radical and necessary rebalancing. Not a rejection of AI, but a rediscovery of the intelligence that AI can never replicate.

he deepest point of this entire inquiry is this: Yogic Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence are not in competition. They are mirrors — two directions of the same fundamental impulse to expand intelligence, understand the world, and navigate existence with greater clarity and capability.

The mistake is to develop only one. A person who cultivates only external intelligence — who builds capability, accumulates knowledge, and optimises for outcomes without any corresponding inward development — produces what the Bhagavad Gita calls a person of restless, ungoverned intelligence: capable, anxious, unable to rest, unable to find genuine satisfaction in any achievement because the inner ground is never cultivated.

A person who cultivates only inward awareness — who meditates, reflects, and develops consciousness but remains disengaged from the world and its practical demands — produces a different kind of incompleteness: wisdom without expression, awareness without application.

The complete vision is the integration. Artificial Intelligence as the most powerful external tool humanity has yet built — in service of values and wisdom developed through Yogic Intelligence. The machine in service of the human. The outward expansion grounded in the inward. The capability guided by consciousness.

This is not a utopian wish. It’s a practical requirement. Because a civilisation that builds extraordinary outward intelligence without corresponding inward development will eventually — as the Gita predicts and as history confirms — use its most powerful tools in service of its least examined impulses. And the consequences of doing that with the scale of power that AI represents are serious enough that we should probably start developing the counterpart now.

The future belongs neither to the meditator who rejects AI nor to the technologist who has never looked inward. It belongs to the person who can hold both — and let each make the other more complete.

Dr. Narayan Rout

wrote Yogic Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence out of a specific frustration. Not with AI — I find AI genuinely extraordinary, and I use it as a thinking and research partner. The frustration was with the framing. Every conversation about AI was either euphoric or apocalyptic. Either AI was going to solve everything, or it was going to destroy everything. And in both versions of the story, the human being was essentially a passive observer — waiting to be saved or threatened by forces outside themselves.

Yogic philosophy offers a completely different position. You are not a spectator of intelligence. You are the ground in which intelligence — all intelligence, artificial and natural — appears. The most powerful act available to you is not to build a better algorithm. It’s to develop the awareness that can use any algorithm wisely.

In FLUXIVERSE, I wrote about the universe’s tendency toward greater integration — from quantum particles to cells to civilisations to consciousness. What strikes me most about this moment in history is that AI and Yoga represent two arms of that same integrating tendency. One reaching outward into the vast complexity of information and computation. One reaching inward toward the simplicity and completeness of pure awareness. Both are expressions of intelligence exploring itself.

The question for our generation is not which one we choose. It’s whether we have the wisdom to develop both — and to let each teach us what the other cannot.

The ancient teachers who built the Yogic tradition were not anti-technology. Nalanda University — the greatest knowledge institution of the ancient world — was a monument to the integration of inner development and outer learning. The vision was never withdrawal from the world. It was engagement with the world from a place of genuine clarity.

That’s what Yogic Intelligence offers in the age of AI. Not a retreat from the machine. A return to the human ground from which the machine can be used with wisdom, purpose, and genuine benefit.

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• Yoga Darshan Decoded: What Patanjali’s Sutras Say About the Mind — The source text of Yogic Intelligence — Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras — decoded for the modern reader.
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