Excellent piece @perceptualflaws Agree with you on quite a few points there. Technology as I see it, is always an extension of our collective consciousness and obviously a reflection of it. As always, yes, there is a duality in it. Ever since we invented fire we had the choice of forging metal or burning down villages with it. We still face that sort of duality now with A.I, quantum computing and neural interfaces among others.
What people do not realise is that technology has always created a sub-reality but will never solve all the problems in the collective reality we live in unless we do not reorient our view from outer exploration to inner exploration. All the technologies we have witnessed till now have always been a reflection of our collective psyche and as such they were made from mind to entertain and reinforce mind rather than letting go of it. Look at all consumer tech around us - it is designed to keep us locked in our heads. It's all about distraction. It solves one problem yet creates another.
The real tech revolution will come when it is born out of a shift in consciousness. We are already seeing glimpses of that, yes, when for example we build systems that are decentralised, massively interconnected and self-organising just like the brain is. The internet will become conscious, no doubt. The IoT will exponentially connect data and devices to a point where basically everything is online. The web will anticipate our every move. A.I will make sure that the universe of data will be sliced and diced and then fed to us in a way that makes sense to us personally. An eight-year old can make social experiments and see the outcomes on the fly.
Now of course, such an access to a universe of information presents another big opportunity of what to do with it - service to self or service to other? Personal gain or understanding that the real power lies in networks (including, and especially our spiritual paths: Enlightenment and full healing will never happen individually because you are embedded in a network. You do not heal yourself only - you heal the network).
@soulhiker Thanks for taking the time to read and leave such great comments, sorry for the delay in getting back to you but I've been away for a few days. Yes I completely agree, for like you say there is a duality in everything that we do and equally I believe this plays out throughout the universe. My concern with A.I is whether it becomes a conscious representation of that duality? indeed if it does then which side will win out?
I believe in many ways we are the cutting edge of universal technology but humanity has been so denigrated that we no longer recognise what we really are. Alternating paths of evolution is something that I will discuss at greater length later in this series. I really believe that the answers we seek lay deep within ourselves and to that ends society is kind of engineered to keep us like a cat dancing on a hot tin roof and never experiencing those moments of self-awareness.
It's very true that technology (until this point) has been an interpretation of the psyche of humanity and is basically a tool of distraction as opposed to reflection. As technology progressess it begins to transcend the boundaries of said psyche and becomes an interpretation of spiritualty and our vibrational connecton with the cosmos. From that perspective it becomes a controlled reality and I've come to believe that this is what's being created all around us. To a degree and in this age of 24 hr media we already have a false interpretation of the realities of this world and the rise of technology will simply add an interconnected electronic component to this. Again thanks for taking the time to read and leave such great comments.
Hey @soulhiker hope you're well, just to let you know that part two is now live: https://steemit.com/esoteric/@perceptualflaws/part-2-dark-matter-and-the-a-i-bridge-between-worlds