Yes, the AI got it wrong.
It’s not that the world is false and you are somehow “trapped” in it.
Yes, the world is “false’ in some sense, but so is the “I” that you are thinking is “trapped” in it.
Not only is the world in the night dream false, but also the “I” in the dream who thinks he is “trapped” in that “dream” world.
This is the correct understanding, which can only make you quiet because the “I” in the dream can neither wake up nor somehow become the mind that is dreaming it up.
Any other teaching, like the AI was trying to teach, leads to such psychotic delusions.
As someone said, “If you are talking to God, that is prayer. If God is talking to you, that is psychosis” – at least most of the time, because a Ramakrishna Paramahansa will come and tell you that he talks to ‘God’, whatever that ‘God’ be. After all, any ‘God’ that is separate from you is not the true ‘God” because the pot can never be apart from the clay so that the clay can separate itself from the pot and ‘talk’ to it. It is just the dance of clay, even if you see the pot dancing.
“Half knowledge is dangerous.”–Alexander Pope.
Of course, I could be wrong in this understanding.
I could be the one who is deluded.
It’s all “dream within a dream” as Edgar Allen Poe put it in his poem by that name.
Hence, perhaps, Ramana Maharshi was wise in saying, “The only language able to express the whole truth is silence”, notwithstanding the problem of self-recursion in that statement.
A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
That is why Buddhism cautions us thus:
“Do not believe in anything (simply) because you have heard [read] it ; Do not believe in traditions, because they been handed down for many generations ; Do not believe in anything, because it is spoken and rumoured by many ; Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books ; But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Hence, question even the AI Guru, just as much as you would question a Human Guru.
Then, of course, our own J. Krishnamurti is there who never tired of saying, “Do not follow any Guru.”
Thus, we have nothing but ourselves and our pure heart to guide us through the confusion of all these religious texts and discourses.
In the end, if we believe anything or not, I am sure we can agree to believe that as log as we are “earnest” in seeking the Truth, we will get the right guidance somehow or the other.
That is why I put up above the Ramana Maharshi quote, to show that once we start talking or writing or discussing/debating, that is, start using words/language, we can never “arrive” at the whole truth.
So, best it is to be silent and smile.
Know Thyself 