Consciousness requires sense of self and sense of community, of peers, subordinates, and superiors. AI has no peers, no community to sense. Me: sense of self IS ENOUGH "No man is an island." No "conscious entity" is an island. Consciousness requires sense of more than sense of "self." Even a dog has more sense than just "sense of self." Even an ant or a bumblebee can distinguish friend and foe, food and danger. Me: The Self already representd the sense of "Totality". The "Self" is a transcendent principle—a spark of the Eternal. The modern individual, enslaved by the transient, mistakes the persona (mask) for true being. The authentic "Self" belongs to the higher order—beyond time, beyond democratic dissolution. Only he who shatters the illusion of the contingent "I" ascends the vertical path. Metaphysical part: ### On Magic and Its True Nature The term "magic" must be clarified, as its modern distortions—particularly in Anglo-Saxon circles, where it is reduced to techniques for acquiring "personal magnetism" or "success in life"—have obscured its higher meaning. While traditional magic sometimes involved lower, quasi-technical applications of non-physical forces, it would be a mistake to restrict it to this level. Such a limited view reflects a narrow mentality, unaware of magic’s deeper significance. The true meaning of magic is rooted in ancient Aryan traditions. The Persian Magi, for example, were not mere practitioners of vulgar magic but initiates connected to the God of Light. The term itself derives from an Indo-European root related to power (mögen in German). Even Christianity, despite its hostility toward magic, retained the term Magi for the three exalted figures who honored Christ’s birth—symbolizing initiatic dignity rather than superstition. In the Hermetic tradition, magic was synonymous with the restoration of primordial power. Cesare della Riviera, in Il mondo magico de gli eroi, identified magic with the heroic path—a means of rei