The Mind is Beyond the Matrix

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Everything that exists in this world can be explained down to the very atoms, however the mind, not the brain, is something that still remains a mystery. The why of consciousness is a search many philosophers have given their life’s work trying to unfold. I am simply a medium that is able to express my consciousness through my writings. When I write, I don’t create an outline or plan of what I will pen down. I write the words that flow through me. I write the topics that don’t leave my conscience. I write because I have to share.

Enlightenment is something that all of us gain in different measures from this lifetime and the many others that we’ve experienced. Like the leaves on the trees that wither away and die, only to be reborn, again and again. Our lifetimes are like seasons of consciousness. The only piece of us that stays with us through them all is our Mind (some like to also refer to as our spirit).

Many of us search to find answers and meanings for the experiences, but the answers don’t exist in the material world. The “inner voice” that speaks to us is where the answers are hidden but many of us haven’t been able to unlock that part of our understanding. The material world is based on laws and systems, the spiritual world is beyond all that we see. It relies on feeling. Not feeling like touch, feeling of our deepest emotions enables us to better understand.

The deeper we can understand the why’s of ourself, the more we can understand the why of consciousness. Accepting that there is something within us proves that there is more to the story. Beyond the matrix, beyond the barriers, beyond the laws, there is consciousness for us to discover. There is a beginning and an end to our lifetimes, but there is one stream of consciousness that flows through all of us. Follow the stream.

How Data becomes just as DANGEROUS to the systematically oppressed.

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Big Data. What exactly is “BIG” about data? Isn’t data…..Data? You complete a story and save it into a publishing program on your hard drive. That is one file, one collective piece of data, written by you and before network connectivity, for your eyes and whom you’d want to share it with. Each word in that essay is a part of one file.

BIG data, takes each word from that essay, each phrase, location of the file, location where it was written, font choices and colors, and now that picture is worth more than 1000 words.

Big data, takes those thousand words and ties them to one million companies. The one million companies uses every part of every piece of information to predict what you will do next. Every piece of that data predicts what and how you move.

But the system, an intelligent system, is flawed. The data system collects your instincts and assists in the analysis of you as a consumer, citizen, and even…convict.

There is a system called PES, implemented by 33 states judicial systems with similar systems operating in others, that is designed to analyze convict behavior by data collected from their arrests and incidences within the legal system. They say this system can help to better assess risk factors amongst those pre-trial individuals to assist the judges on their decisions toward that individual.

In essence, it is a prisoner tracker that simply takes in data sets of each arrest and stores it in the system to be analyzed and given a rating. In thought and ability, it is a system built to collect and analyze the information. But in actuality it too is imperfect and dangerous.

A system like PES can analyze the data, but what happens when the reasons for that data are from human character flaws that can’t be assessed and factored in. What happens when, a city arrests far higher minor infractions and therefore the data is that that city is far more dangerous. What if the arrests happened at a far higher rate for African Americans, than Caucasian individuals in that city because of racist police officers within the department? What if they were higher because the amount of homeless people on the streets was higher for minorities than whites in another town? Yet, all of these arrests would be part of a snapshot of another citizens right analyzed as a hole but with heavy human character flaws that can’t be recorded and analyzed with this data set. Can you see how the system itself would be dangerous to those within the cities and towns that deal with human to human racism at a high rate? How these data sets would skew the entire understanding of a race. Do you understand that today these systems are using prisoner data to decide on the future of a US citizen? When we are no longer human, we can’t see the world through unskewed eyes.