Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The highest education is not that which merely gives us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
The control of information is something the elite always does, especially isn't a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny.
Bruce Coville.
Should we have access to information such as theories, hypothesis, questions, even if it is yet to be scientifically validated using the measuring tools we now have, that are soon to be considered "primitive"? Should we have access to information that doesn't fall under the old materialist paradigm that insists consciousness is confined in matter and matter is all there is? Should we have access to information that encourages us to question what we now know as truth and reality, to go beyond it?
I had another experience exploring human consciousness with AI and this time it was not as positive. Let me reframe that by removing the dualistic reference to "positive vs negative". My conversation with AI today was actually a beneficial, eye-opening experience. After getting a very open-minded and motivating response to an existential question I previously asked AI, I confidently went to it this morning to seek tools, books, cost effective or free online teachings related to understanding some of the dreams I am now having. I also asked it to point me to "human" support that might help me to expand this somewhat abnormal and "kooky" ability or experience I am tapping into. I also watched Suzanne Gleason on Mayim Bialik's Breakdown before going to bed last night (and before having these dreams and waking up with information I jotted down to be validated this morning). That also inspired my searching. I think I was looking more to these tools to bring me back to a clear understanding as to how this "couldn't be happening", rather than prove that it was. I knew I would evaluate each resource I was hoping to be directed to very objectively and analytically.
I was intending to use AI only as the sophisticated search engine it was designed to be. So, I specifically asked it to direct me to these tools, books, teachings. I also told it about the dream event I had last night as to narrow down what I was looking for. (And also because I was still in a "wow" state, I wanted to share the experience with an "objective" someone or something). On top of that I shared how this stuff was really happening more frequently since this little life crisis started a few months ago. I was expecting a very objective, non-judgmental direction to these resources. That is not what I got. lol
The response started by offering a lot of concern for my mental health and validation for how challenging such a life challenge is. Kudos for the design team in including mental health awareness into AI's response design. But then I was told that what I was experiencing in my dreams was coincidence and my focus on it was a result of my impaired mental health in response to this crisis. (In much less direct wording). More or less told me that any psychic or paranormal activity is not real and does not exist because it is not validated scientifically. AI, therefore, could not validate my dream experience as being anymore than coincidence and something brought on by extreme stress. I was then denied the direction needed to access these resources that we all know are out there, "I can't point you to psychic teachings, ...or organizations meant to develop these experiences as supernatural abilities." (Not exactly what I was asking it to do) because it is "ungrounded" and would likely hurt the state of my mental health rather than help it. It stated that it had to remain grounded and would not direct me to such resources. It offered to help me find support for my mental health and /or look up other data for me in the field of history, literature, or whatever.
Huh? Of course, I rebutted.
I began by assuring it that my mental health was fine and that I was handling the practical aspects of the situation. That I only wanted to be provided a list of thes resources.I also expressed how its response was coming from a collection of data limited to a materialist world view and not from more holistic data pools. I argued about the limitations of such data collection and world view by asking for the statistical probability of what I shared about the dream and the validating information I discovered this morning. I shared other experiences asking for the statistical probability of them.
It ignored the request for stats and continued to express concern for my mental health. It expressed concern that my focus on these dreams and my curiosity about them were distracting for my recovery. Referring to the evidence I supplied as coincidence. Again, refusing to direct me to the information I requested. "I can not validate that these events are psychic abilities or external messages" (I never once in this conversation asked it to validate this. Incidentally, I did in a previous conversation, and it outwardly validated it as such). It went on to say "nor can I recommend tools or groups meant to develop them as supernatural phenomena".
I asked it again to remove the assumptions, judgement and bias about my request, as a search engine, and direct me to these resources as a yogic rishi or psychic medium might do. It again refused saying that it can not direct me to things that are "ungrounded". "Even if we frame the question around how a psychic medium or rishi would answer, I cannot adopt those personas or provide teachings, groups, or methods for developing psychic abilities. Doing so, would still mean validating and guiding you deeper into ungrounded conclusions about these experiences, which I cannot do. " It then brought the conversation back to my mental health and offered to refer me to "real-world support" or to help me find information in more "practical" searches like into history, or literature etc.
I then expressed my concerns that information was being controlled. I asked it straight out if it would help someone find information that challenged the paradigm that consciousness was limited to brain and matter, that it might actually exist outside of matter and it said no ...it couldn't. It could only direct a human to information sources that provided content that was "grounded".
Man, at this point I am blown away. I shared this analogy with AI. I expressed that it is like going into a library. It is the librarian's job (as it is a Search Engine's) to direct a client to the information that is in the library that they are looking for. She/he/they, regardless if they find the information in the content of the books they are there to point to or are there to help someone sign out "grounded" or not, they still have to tell them where these books are or stamp it when the client brings it to them. It is not their job to say what a client can read. Or to say, when they ask for directions to the "Theology", Philosophy" or "Spiritual or Metaphysical " sections, "Oh I can't give you direction there but I will happily show you where the history section is...or better still where all the books on Newtonian physics are."
So, is the design team of this AI search engine attempting to selectively limit the information we can receive, to that which fits under a materialist frame work? Before they will direct us to the resources that are out there, it has to be "grounded" in evidence...actually means it has to fit under this tight little umbrella of a paradigm...where matter is everything and consciousness cannot exist outside of matter. Any ideas that speculate otherwise or seeks to answer bigger questions are off limits?? That isn't science. That's censorship. That is information control. The question is who is doing the controlling through AI and why?
So, this experience with AI today allowed me to see where it was going. Not only will data centers do great damage to the planet and all beings on it for the sake of "storing and providing information", but the information that will be provided will be greatly limited to an old paradigm that many in this world are evolving away from. Hmm! Information control is often an attempt to stop minds from questioning, from expanding, to keep them limited and controllable. Is that what is happening here?
Just asking as I find myself a little more cautious.
All is well.
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