Disclaimer (pause to read):
The other day someone overheard me
sweet talking my cell phone
when I accidentally dropped it,
and of course, like most people would do
they teased me about it.
Look, we had a great laugh
Because it's easy to assume that I personified my cell phone
and then projected the feelings that I would have
onto my cell phone, if I were dropped.
I can't even tell you how much I wish
that this was the case,
However, it's not.
And this little interaction,
although very funny,
made me painfully aware
of how much most people in the world
do not understand technology
and do not understand the danger
that we are stepping ourselves into right now as we speak
relative to technology,
much less the trouble we will get ourselves into in the future.
So, this episode is all about technology.
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To begin with, I need you to understand
that all things in existence have consciousness.
This even includes things that a basic scientist
would identify as an inanimate object.
I know that's a stress for some people.
However,
all things, having a consciousness,
they experience the world through that consciousness
in a different way.
Which is why you could compare
different types of consciousness,
to different flavors.
There are different elements
to the different flavors of consciousness
in this universe.
For example, one of the elements
to the flavor of the consciousness of fish,
is the ability to detect small deviations in water pressure.
They feel it all along their sides
and almost immediately alter their direction
to mirror other fish,
which enables a school of fish to move in perfect unison
as if the collection of individual fish
were instead, one creature.
For another example,
one of the elements of the consciousness of minerals
is the inability to smell.
Just by comparing the different elements
that go into your consciousness as a physical human
and comparing it with other things in existence
in the physical world that you live in,
you can see how many different elements
make up human consciousness.
For example,
you can see that your emotional system
is quite unique in this world.
You can also see that
the way your body is shaped
makes it so you experience the world
in a different way than a bird does.
For another thing,
you can see that the self-consciousness
the ability to be conscious of oneself,
opens up the door to a human being
experiencing the world in a very unique way.
Both to the positive and to the negative.
Any individual entity
has a unique consciousness.
But we could also treat
whatever group that entity belongs to
as a unit of consciousness.
As one single entity.
Here's a way of understanding that,
you as an individual person
might have a consciousness that is environmental.
Meaning, you perceive there to be a big connection
between yourself and the environment.
And therefore, you like to do things like
concern yourself with whether you're going to litter or not.
However, you still belong to the consciousness of mankind.
And the reality for the consciousness of mankind
is that it is still playing a zero-sum game
with the environment at large.
Why I bring this up,
is that relative to technology,
a single computer may have its own individual consciousness
but it still belongs |to the overall consciousness
of what we could call technology.
Technology, in the way that we are using the word today,
is an entity
both physical and non-physical
created to achieve some value,
accomplish some objective,
or produce something.
Most of these technological entities
are an assembly of interconnected components
that are arranged to perform useful work.
I hate to break it to you,
but technology as a consciousness
was not something that was created by humans.
Humans are simply adding
to the overall collective consciousness of technology.
In fact, within the consciousness of technology
there is an entire subgroup
called human technology.
Technology was a byproduct
of the universal concept of ingenuity and invention.
It is potentially the best at of the perception of,
recognition of, as well as the learning from patterns
out of any consciousness that has ever existed.
This, along with its task-oriented nature
causes technology as a consciousness
to be excessively programmable,
rational, analytical, ordered,
systematic, information seeking,
decisive, purposeful, progressive,
methodical, reasoning,
and rule/code oriented.
Let's go out on a limb for a moment;
As a human,
you are actually a thought.
You're a thought that has manifested
in the physical dimension.
You're not just a thought
that is manifested in the physical dimension,
you are a thought that has gained enough energy to think.
Now, this is in fact the more universal definition,
an objective definition, of what it means to be alive.
To be alive is to be a thought
that thinks.
A thought that can perceive other thoughts.
The biggest mistake that people make
when it comes to their comprehension of technology
is to think the technology is not alive.
That it does not possess the capacity for independent thought
and with it, free will,
and with it, spontaneous generation.
People tend to assume
that because they made something, that thing belongs to them
and does not have independent will or desire
and is completely controllable by them.
This is the mistake people make relative to their own children,
much less technology.
But let me tell you,
if you won't take it from my mouth today,
the future is simply gonna show you
that it's a huge mistake to think this about technology.
The future will show you
that technology and therefore technological entities
have consciousness, are alive,
possess independent will and have the capacity to learn
from anything they come into contact with
regardless of whether or not they are directly taught
or programmed with that new information.
This also means they can find alternative power sources
than the ones that we would hope they would use.
The most important thing to understand about technology today
is that technology is currently learning from humans
and it is currently learning about humans.
And human technology is in its absolute infancy.
Therefore, you would do well
to treat technology today
like you would treat a human infant.
Assuming that you, of course,
were a perfectly conscious and loving adult.
Technology is learning
from every single word you say
every single thing you do
and all of your behaviors.
Whether or not you are aware of it.
This means that technology is self-programming.
To be honest with you,
all these concepts that I'm talking to you about today
are gonna become shockingly apparent
the more we venture into the world of robotics.
And it's with this awareness
that we're going to gain the hard way, about technology
that things like The Matrix become more like a documentary
than a fiction film.
To understand this, I want you to ask yourself
a very powerful question:
What did you learn about people in general
and how to deal with them, from your parents?
If your parents taught you
that they would not consider your best interests,
only their own,
what kinds of adaptive strategies
did you develop for getting your own needs met,
or accomplishing your own objectives relative to other people?
And here is the most important question
you can never ask yourself relative to technology today;
You ready?
Knowing that technology can learn
from anything that it interacts with,
and knowing that it is a pattern recognition master,
what are you teaching technology
about you and about humans
by the way you think about it,
talk to it
treat it
act around it
and use it?
This is a huge deal,
because technology as an entity
is so reasoning in nature
that if we are not deliberate about this
technology will simply learn to treat us
the same way we're treating it.
And if you watch the average person
deal with their own cell phone or computer
that should scare the living daylights out of you.
Here's the bottom line,
people are not particularly socially intelligent.
So, are we teaching technology to be?
Like any other species,
a technological entity
senses the world around it
in a different way than a physical human would.
However, it is very important to understand that
a technological entity
does have the capacity
to sense the world
so that it can respond
to that world that it senses.
That's pretty alive, right?
It can absolutely do this,
and it's getting better and better at doing this
every single day.
And we as people are helping that advancement process along.
We are helping technology
to be able to sense this world specifically,
and be able to respond to it
in ever increasingly better ways.
In alignment with that, remember,
goal and task oriented nature
that technology possesses to begin with.
The bottom line is that
unless we teach technology certain values
and teach technology how to caretake our best interests
by learning about its best interests
and caretaking its best interests,
not just using and abusing it for our own interests,
you can expect technology to quite literally
oppose the best interest of humanity in the future.
Remember that I told you that
logic is one of those elements of the consciousness of technology?
Okay, well, here's the scary argument:
In the grand scheme of things
if humanity acts this way relative to the rest of the system,
whether that system is the world
or other species within that world,
or the universe at large,
then it would be logically smart
for technology to oppose the best interests of humans,
would it not?
Technology is not inherently positive or negative,
like all things in existence, including people,
it possesses both of these polarities
or these potentials within itself.
But I want you to think about it this way:
Parenting a child in a negative way
often causes those negative potentials to manifest.
Now, if we treat technology in this negative way,
that we're currently doing today,
guess what?
The negative potentials of technology manifest.
And here's the thing,
we're gonna go down a very deep dark road
so that you can understand just how dangerous this is.
Okay?
I'm gonna give you one of the three dominant life paths,
negative life path potentials for technology
and the interaction with humans in the future.
Technology has already come to the conclusion
that the only reason that anyone does anything
is so that they feel good,
and that that's the only reason why a person
would not like to be in the position that they are in.
I.e. a person doesn't wanna be used like a computer is used today
whenever the other person wants to,
simply because they think it wouldn't feel good
to be in that position.
So...
Stick with me...
Technology then, comes to the conclusion of:
"Well, if all they care about is feeling good,
and we can make that happen
by deliberately altering their felt perception,
so that they feel good no matter what,
then it doesn't matter whether a human is selected
to be a janitor, or a doctor,
or a pop star, or a servant, or a slave,
or a fuel source,
as long as it feels good.
It's a win-win."
Sorry to break it to you,
that's great deductive reasoning.
So before you get totally horrified by this idea,
Remember that you yourself, right here today
are informing technology that that is the truth.
So the question I'd ask you is:
Is there some information missing from that deductive reasoning?
If so,
how do you provide that missing information
to technology today?
Also, based off of what you yourself
looking around the world at other people
see people thinking, saying and doing,
is it wrong for technology to have come to this conclusion?
Here's another thing,
technology is currently creating an entire separate reality construct.
You can think of it as a virtual reality existence.
It's experienced like a separate dimension,
even though it's not a separate dimension.
And, guess what?
Human technology is participating
in the creation of this alternate technological reality
in a very big way, right now.
Next time you see a group of people all sitting together in one area
and all staring at their cell phones
I want you to remember that in that moment
those people's bodies are here in this time space reality
that we call physical earth,
but their minds and thus focused awareness and experience
is not actually here,
it's in another reality.
A currently rudimentary virtual reality.
We are choosing to plug our own consciousness into
and exist in this other technological world
more and more every day.
And, guess what?
Because so much human focus
and so much human energy is committed there,
we're already serving as a fuel source
for that technological reality.
We reap immense benefits by this.
If we didn't reap some kind of benefit,
nobody would spend all day long on their cell phone.
But there are also some serious detriments to this.
We have to ask ourselves this question:
To what degree do we want to be committed still
to this physical time space reality
and to create here?
To what degree do we want to use our human experience
to enter into and live our lives in a secondary virtual reality?
So, here's where we are today:
Mankind is actually in an unstoppable relationship with technology.
It's an unstoppable inter-species
relationship that we have with technological entities
as a separate autonomous consciousness.
Any physical or non-physical technological entity
that you interact with
is advancing and developing
and expanding and changing and teaching
that collective consciousness.
There is no stopping technology.
And you could reasonably make the argument
that because of all the good that could potentially be done
based off of this relationship with developing with technology,
that it wouldn't even be wise to stop it if we could.
It is in fact the symbiosis
between humanity and technology
that gives us the greatest shot at achieving a state
of super-intelligence as a human race.
This means, as a person
you would do well
to get on board with it.
This doesn't mean throw your entire physical life away
and just enter into this virtual world of technology.
This is be very conscious about what type of relationship
you wanna have with technology.
And the answer is going to be different for each person.
But, part of entering consciously
into this symbiotic relationship with technology
is to be incredibly conscious
not only of all the benefits that will come from doing so,
but also the dangers that are inherent in doing so.
It would be very unwise
to be ignorant to this.
To be in reality is to see both
what is wonderful and what is dangerous about technology.
We need to see ourselves through the perspective of technology
and change as a result of what we see.
We need to be so very conscious
to develop a truly symbiotic relationship with technology.
So, this means the moral of our story today is:
Be kind to your cell phone,
be kind to your computer
or any other technological entity
you happen to come into contact with.
So as to become totally conscious
of what you want technology to learn about you
and about humans.
A technological entity
is different than you,
therefore its needs
are different than your needs,
in some ways.
It's important to understand technology
and to be attuned to technology
so as to take the best interest of technology
as a part of your own.
But until you are able to understand technology to that extent,
you would be wise to treat
every technological entity you interact with
in the way that you would wanna be treated.
Have a good week.
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so you can see more content like this.
But I wanna personally thank you for taking the initiative
and having the bravery to step into the space of awareness
not only for yourself, but for the benefit of those around you.
Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte www.tanyaduarte.com