You may have heard me say that the brain is an AI. I'm watching a video of Dr. Bruce Lipton talking about the science of manifestation. In it, he provides an image of the brain in which the front tip is distinguished from the rest of the brain. He explains that this front tip (maybe 10% of the mass) is where consciousness operates, and that the rest of it is "subconscious". This is what I mean by "the brain is an AI". I'm excited to see the next parts in which he will talk about being a spirit. I recently read in the book Innercise by John Assaraf that the subconscious is like a gorilla, in other words, overpowering!
I started this post because of the basic sensitivity I feel when considering these things. The fact is that it is relatively difficult to do anything differently from how the gorilla will do it. The programming is there and difficult to overcome. The spirit is willing, but the gorilla is overpowering... or so it seems. I believe the gorilla is overpowering, but it is dedicated to its code, and who writes the code? If you let them, everyone else will write your code, using your gorilla to program you in their own best interest, but you have to let them do it for that to happen.
If you write your own code, then you use your gorilla to figure out what code you need to write, and you write it every time you make a conscious decision. This is why I like doing hard things, like meditating for 15 minutes as soon as I get up in the morning. Okay, that's not all that hard. But I also like to invite people to criticize me so I can get better at whatever I'm doing, and I like running at least 5 miles three or four times a week, getting into really cold water, and avoiding junk food. People say I am disciplined, and I suppose that's close.
I think of it more as "trained", but not trained by someone else. I am trained by myself. You, also, are trained by yourself. You wrote those programs running in your mind, or you let someone else write them. Either way, they are your responsibility. Congratulations, I hope! Or... pay more attention!
I have a question for you: Who are you, really? Who are you being, most of the time, yourself, that spirit that actually experiences everything to which you pay attention when you actually pay attention? Or are you, most of the time, being someone created by everyone else? Your individuality is important to me. If you're not being the person you design yourself to be, you're just another AI, something without much of a spirit, an NPC. I think you, also will like the you that you design better than the AI that you'll otherwise become.
