Data mining proves non-duality… Really?
Like, what does one have to do with each other?
Well, first of all, it’s good to understand what data mining is. What I’m talking about is computers taking information from thousands and thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of people and putting it together into patterns of behavior. This is so advanced and complex now that it can be used to feed people the kinds of information that will then manipulate them into certain behaviors. That’s what the danger of it is. It is such sophisticated data processing that it can be used to manipulate elections, change purchasing behavior, and more, with people on a global, massive scale.
But what does this have to do with non-duality?
So. Most people believe that the number one thing that is unique about them is their mind. And this proves that that is simply not true. There’s nothing unique about any of our minds when we’re looked at from the perspective of a computer algorithm. That data sees each of us as simply a data point with predictable minds and behavior.
In the computer program we are put together with thousands and thousands of other people who can be relied on to behave in basically the same way as we do, given certain inputs and impulses.
This is actually what non-duality has been saying all along. That there is nothing unique about the mind. The mind is a little programmed robot, a programmed robot of electrons that fires in certain ways and has an illusion of reality.
So, data mining is proving non-duality in a very, very straightforward way.
There is nothing in my mind that has not come there from some outside source. I can put ideas together in somewhat unique ways, but nothing can happen that isn’t at least building on what has happened before. And societies are unique only in the input they provide to people.
Society itself is a whole bunch of people that are conditioned in a particular way. Societies can work well if the conditioning creates harmony amongst people. Even a family is something that’s conditioned in a particular way.
It’s helpful to use this idea to stand back from yourself, and look at yourself and go, “Oh. That’s interesting. The mind is simply an independent thing that is not you at all.”
So, who are you?
Who is there before, after, during the mind? Your mind can change, and you’re still the same. You can learn something, yet you’re still the same. Who are you?
What you are searching for is what you’re looking from.