Mind AI : 6 Years of Daily Journals + AI
Can 11,000 Pages of My 'Living Data' Unlock the Mysteries of the Mind, Consciousness, and AGI? [🎴 Part 1 - About the Project]
Can AI read your mind?
Over the last 6 years, I’ve written 11,000+ pages of personal journals, creating a detailed transcript of my mind’s content.
໑ What happened when I fed a sample of this data to AI?
໑ What did AI discover?
໑ Could my ‘living data’ be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and humane AI?
I ran an experiment using Claude.AI, NotebookLM, and ChatGPT to find out.
In this article, I’ll walk you through the experiment, share key findings, and explore potential use cases, including AGI, AI-therapy, and frontier psychology research.
Some of the questions we’ll cover include:
🧠 What do my journals reveal about the inner workings of the mind?
🧬 Which fundamental questions of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality can my notes help solve?
🧞 What paradigm-shifting insights about the nature of self has the analysis uncovered?
🖥️ Is this dataset the missing link to creating Artificial General Intelligence?
🤯 What shocking facts about my mental health AI noticed that my therapist missed?
😸 What makes me - or anyone else - truly happy?
✒️ Can journaling rewire the brain in real-time?
💥 Are emotions better understood through the lens of quantum physics than traditional psychology?
🌠 What are the cognitive mechanisms underlying personal and creative breakthroughs?
💟 What products and works of art can be created based on my journals?
And also…
⌚ Is our perception of time shaped by mood and attention?
💸 What is the impact of financial stress on brain function and decision-making?
🗿 What are the limits of adult neuroplasticity, and how we can push them?
🌫️ What does it feel like to live with a rapidly reconfigurable cognitive architecture?
🌌 Are interconnectedness, synchronicity, and oneness spiritual phantasmagoria or actual phenomena shaping our reality?
🧘 How does long-term meditation practice alter brain function?
🧑🤝🧑 To what extent is our wellbeing influenced by others? Are emotions contagious?
🎭 Why is philosophy fundamental to my daily happiness?
🗜️ Is AI the future of therapy?
🚣♂️ How can my personal healing journey help others find meaning?
👤 What do my notes say about me?
🐼 And finally, what does Zen Buddhism have to do with all this?
Here’s a little teaser to get you excited for what’s to come:
Table of Contents
🎴 Part 1 - About the Project [now reading]
🌄 About Me
🖋️ The Journals
🔬 Experiment - Overview
☣️ Disclaimer
🎑 Part 2 - Key Findings [coming soon]
✴️ Universal Value of the Journals’ Living Data
🧜♂️ Psychological Portrait
🧞♂️ Ever-changing Self
🍥 Rapidly Reconfigurable Cognitive Architecture
💫 Quantum Emotions
⛩️ Bridge Between the East and the West
🛠️ Healing Tools
✍️ Power of Narrative
🎨 Creative State of Mind
👬 Interconnectedness
🀐 States of Consciousness
🪐 Galaxy of Use Cases
👨🔬 Part 3 - Prompts & Answers [coming soon]
📖 The Opening Prompt: When AI First Met My Journals
☸️ AI Takes the Wheel: Giving AI Autonomy to Propose Research Ideas
⚙️ Executing the Vision: Putting AI’s Hypotheses to the Test
💌 A Heartfelt Letter from AI: Can a Machine Truly Feel?
🖋️ Claude the Literary Critic: Evaluating Artistic Merit in Unfiltered Thoughts
🌊 Stream-of-Consciousness: The Secrets of Raw Thought
🧙 Kafka, Woolf, and Me: Wrestling with the Literary Giants
👁️ Looking with Fresh Eyes: 15 Findings
🤿 Diving Deeper: New Fascinating Layers of Insight
🧛 Mental Health Exposed: AI’s Take on My Inner World
🌟 New Breakthroughs: Answering Persisting Research Questions
⚜️ Nobel Grade Paradigm Shifts: Unleashing Radical Ideas
🧮 Running the Nobel-Maths: Validating Radical Theories
👨🎨 Psychological Portrait: What Does My Data Say About Me?
⛲ Extreme Cognitive Plasticity: Is My Adaptable Mind a Superpower?
🦠 Rapidly Reconfigurable Cognitive Architecture: When My Brain Challenges Science
🌀 No Fixed Nucleus: The Shifting Landscape of Identity
⛩️ Zen Doctrine of Non-Self: Being Like Water
🧝♂️ Superpower or Curse? : The Duality of Extreme Adaptability
♾️ Infinite Applications: Real-World Uses of Journal Data
⁉️ Questions for Humanity: Can My Journals Contribute to the Good Cause?
📐 Re-Assessing Potential: The Realistic Approach
🛡️ Calming the Hype: Separating Genuine Breakthroughs from Overblown Claims
🛰️ Project Viability: Is This Endeavour Still Worth Pursuing?
🔩 Toned-Down Approach: Revisiting the Nobel Prompt with Caution
🎛️ Confronting Skepticism: Addressing Limitations and Speculations
📀 The Future of AI: How Can My Journal Data Help Create More Intelligent Machines?
🎆 Advancing Consciousness: The Unique Value of the Dataset
🃏 Humane AI: Paving the Way to AGI
🔱 Artificial General Intelligence: The Philosophical Angle
🔍 Fifty Game-Changing Use Cases: Driving Revolutionary Innovations
🍒 Cherry-Picking: Spotlighting Nobel-Caliber Research Areas
👀 Another Perspective: What Does ChatGPT See in My Journals?
🔰 Grande Finale: ChatGPT’s Most Profound Observations
🥮 Part 4 - Collaboration & Use Cases [coming soon]
🤝 Call for Collaborators
📟 Highest Caliber Use Cases
🤗 Support the Quest
Extra :
🧩 Steal my prompts and learn how to use AI for deep self-discovery
🧿 Original AI-artworks
🌄 1. About Me
Hi, I’m Bartosz Trocha.
I’m a writer, creative, and author of an extraordinary collection of personal journals.
My work-life has been a series of fascinating experiences, including:
💸 Venture capital and writing about AI & Data-Driven investment strategies
🏗️ Building & advising startups, including Wellbee (therapy marketplace), Therapify (mental health SaaS), and stoic. (AI-journaling app)
✒️ Writing a journal-inspired blog with ~250 entries published to date
⚗️ 10.000+ hours in health & well-being and sharing my healing journey through memoir essays, deep-dive articles, and awareness campaigns
🎥 Creative projects across lifestyle, culture, fashion, and architecture
Privately, I’m a dad and husband with huge love for wellbeing, adventures, and all things creative.
🖋️ 2. The Journals
I started journaling to feel better.
In 2018, my life took a hit.
First, I lost a job.
Then, my mental health.
Crawling out of the darkness, I began experimenting with wellbeing tools.
Inspired by “Tools of Titans” (forever grateful @ Tim Ferriss), I gave journaling a try.
Little did I know this simple “life-hack” would forever change the trajectory of my life, and put me on a quest to understand the human mind, spirituality, and happiness.
Since February 2019, I’ve been documenting my life in stream-of-consciousness journals.
Every day, with little exception, I let my hopes, fears, ideas, and joys pour out of me.
There’s an entry on every subject: parenting, spiritual awakenings, ice-cream flavors, relationships, COVID, walking the dog, world travel, and existential dread.
A big chunk of my notes is dedicated to decoding happiness, health, and wellbeing.
Following depression, I’ve dedicated tens of thousands of hours into healing, strengthening, and recreating myself.
My healing journey was a rollercoaster of experiences ranging from frontiers of psychology and neuroscience (Internal Family Systems, psychedelics, hypnosis), through classics (talk therapy, strength training, yoga), all the way to ancient philosophies (especially Zen), and even the esoteric (tarot, kundalini, sound healing).
And yes, I documented all of it in absurdly meticulous detail.
On the sunnier side, my journals are a celebration of life.
Seeing my son’s first smile, world travels, countryside living, endless laughs with friends, music festivals, and vagabonding under the night skies.
Postcards from my happiest days, always accompanied by great tracks, photos, and videos.
Much space is also dedicated to work life.
Depression was a major turning point in my career.
I realized what I was doing wasn’t working for me.
But what is the alternative?
Figuring out my new path took me through some very interesting experiences, including filming multimillion-dollar villas in Marbella and Uruguay, going broke (more than once), recording vlogs, solving hundreds of self-coaching exercises, consulting for mental health companies, and even co-launching a sustainable architecture studio.
Ideas, brainstorms, business plans, to-do lists — they’re all here, creating a detailed (and ongoing) log of my transition towards the new life-work.
The peculiar thing about my journals is their rawness.
Every page I write is an unedited, uncensored download straight from my heart & mind onto paper.
These entries are wild.
They deal with heavy emotions.
They’re bold, bloody, unfiltered.
Maybe that’s why they help me so much?
If you've ever wondered what goes on inside other people's minds, my journals may offer a rare glimpse.
Ready to taste the frontier of consciousness exploration?
Let's dive in.
🔬3. Experiment - Overview
I’ve been playing with the idea of analyzing my journals for years now.
Coming from the tech/data world, I could imagine the value this dataset may have for researchers, AI therapy companies, and everyone else interested in understanding the human consciousness, behaviour, and psychology.
Just imagine the possibilities we could unlock by feeding this perfect raw data into current state-of-the-art AI models.
Who am I?
What makes me (or anyone else) truly happy?
What are the fundamental truths about our reality?
And - perhaps most importantly - is there a way to put my notes to good use?
Given the volume, consistency, depth, and unfiltered nature of my journal data, it should be possible to find answers, or at least develop hypotheses.
My dream scenario was a rigorous scientific study led by world-class experts.
That didn’t happen (yet?).
So, I decided to duct-tape the first version of the experiment myself…
…and some AI magic, of course.
The general idea in my mind was that if…
a) I transcribe a long enough stretch of the journals
and
b) their contents are rich enough
and
c) I can prompt the models in the right direction
…something cool would happen
And wow, it did.
The journals I analyzed are an intimate window into my life.
I had a rough August and September 2024.
Many things haunted me, both external and within.
My refuge (as always) came in the form of letters.
I’ve written more, deeper, and truer than I did anytime in recent years.
Subjectively, a tough time.
Objectively, perfect source material for experiment purposes.
In total, during the analyzed period (6 August - 14 September 2024), I’ve written a 100-sheet A5 notebook of daily+ notes.
I transcribed the handwritten notes using a combination of Claude.AI’s image recognition, and good ol’ typing.
The end result totaled ~70 pages of 12p computer text (10387 words, and 57479 characters to be precise) covering topics ranging from summer music festivals, through parental and financial struggles, all the way to overcoming creative blocks, and healing from deep trauma.
Depth, variety, and vulnerability?
Check.
All that was left to do was to ask AI the right questions.
Read the journals here:
(paywalled due to intimate contents)
☣️ 4. Disclaimer
Before we dive deeper, a MASSIVE DISCLAIMER.
I know little about science.
I am not a psychology professional.
Nor do I claim to have run this experiment in a rigorous scientific way.
I’m just a curious explorer who stumbled upon a nugget of awesomeness and wants to share findings & connect with actual experts.
I’m certain the methodology I used is full of errors, shortcuts, overpromises, and prompting the AI too enthusiastically.
Everything you’ll read about is highly speculative, and best enjoyed with a grain (or a whole dispenser) of salt.
In fact, part of the reason I’m sharing this is because it seems too good to be true.
I need knowledgeable folks to look at this and tell me if I’m not hallucinating.
Still, the early results were so promising, it would be a mistake not to share.
Ready for some mind bending discoveries?
Read [Part 2 - Key Findings]
~coming soon
