Ethymologically you are right, I wasn’t really aware of the alchemical background of five rounds of destillation when I wrote my comment.

Nonetheless, “quintessential for” is not unheard (or rather unread?) of:

It will take another generation or two until this usage becomes normalized, so thank you for pointing me to a better style.

Due to the added experience of freezing probably a lot better than grass.

Depends on your definition of “actual”.

I totally agree that the original 12 steps cannot work for anyone not believing in an Abrahamitic god.

I’d say that you need the actual steps for other people, i.e. the steps the AA are really taking, not the steps they claim to take.

Of course – if the AI is supposed to give you an answer, they have to know what you are writing, so yes, logging your keystrokes is quintessential for every online service you interact with. You cannot get an answer without asking.

The wording is strange, though, and I’m not sure whether this ToS allows them to collect and process what you are typing while using their service, or all your typing.

Dementia kills very slowly – if at all.

If you want to detach step 11 from it’s Christian roots, you cannot just substitute “God” in its wording. That yields nonsense, as you are stating correctly.

The aim of Step 11 is “knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” In non–religious terms I would call this aim “committment”.

The means of Step 11 to achieve commitment is spirituality, spirituality being a set of basic convictions that provides meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging.

A “neutral” Meta—Step 11 might be worded something like:

“We consciously develop a healthy spiritual basis for our live, gaining motivation and comittment through it.”

As any religion, philosophy, ideology or other system of basic convictions can provide this spiritual basis for an individual, the formulation of a more concrete and helpful Step 11 will differ between e.g. communists, buddhists, naturists and epicureans.