My Thoughts On Cognitive Machinery

This is a follow up on my post in regards to Russell Yermals note on Cognitive Machinery:

Angela Gower-Johnson wrote
at 3:57pm on December 6th, 2008
Dear Gorgeous Russell,

At the start of your post I kept thinking of the movie IRobot. It is one of Julian’s favorite movies, so I’ve seen it many times!

My feeling is that the tasks and things we have to do give us clarity as to what we want. Where we are gives us clarity of what we want. I don’t think having super amounts of help is going to help give us clarity.

The whole concept of having lots taken care for me so that I can spend time on personal development is something I am going to sit with. I honestly spend more time working on my own connection and alignment than anyone I know. I have spent months at a time in full time prayer. I live my life as consciously and with as much awareness possible. Yet there is still room for growth, knowledge, alignment and connection.

The one thing that really worries me about cognitive machines is how much it could possibly take people away from nature which is the biggest teacher I know. Nature is naturally grounding and if you are in nature it is natural to start seeing in panoramic (wide angle vision) which gets you into a state of Alpha (beginning stage of meditation, relaxation).

I love England, even though I am American. Why do I love it here so much? I love it because we are behind the time. My father says where I live is 20 years behind America. I say, Thank God! There is much less convenience here.

All the villages are set in a way in which people must commune with nature and do more of the basic things. Walking, for example. In most small towns and villages you can’t drive to shops, you have to get out of your car and walk in the fresh air.

Julian taught me wide angle vision and he explained how we are trained out of it by living in boxes, leaving those boxes and being in the open for very brief periods of time (or not at all) to get into a smaller box to then go into a larger box. We pass time by reading books (another box shape) or watching TV, or work on a box (computer). All these activities train us to limit our vision.

Limiting our physical vision has a knock on effect to our emotional/thought vision. We start eliminating possibilities and relying on proof to have belief.

Thanks for a very thought provoking article.

You are Gorgeous and I love you!

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela

http://angelabear.com