Your Are a Computer
June 7th, 2007
We are biological computers, coded with a universal operating system at birth, and installing new programs as we learn in our environment. Many of the idiosyncrasies of humanity: faults, mental disorders, addictions - like computer bugs and crashes - are merely symptoms of running a complex set of programs.
Core emotions: love, anger, fear, ambition, ingenuity, lust, revenge, even morality - these are part of the core operating system that has ensured our survival through optimizing reproduction over time.
Much of what we universally experience as discontent (or sometimes avoid or mask through vegging out, depression, consumerism, working, or substance abuse) is simply a product of being a biological mechanism with a powerful processor, and layers of “software” - culture, identity, social values, knowledge, education - and no apparent purpose other than to be “on.”
But maybe we can hack the machine? The ghost within the machine, call it a soul, god/energy shining through, your true self, a blissful void - whatever label you like - can become self-aware as separate from the body (and the thinking mind) and fundamentally alter the code of the machine. We can chose to “uninstall” the concepts of who we are, all of them, that make up our egos. By emptying ourselves of this “software,” we experience reality on a new level, much more in tune with the world and not a slave to our ideas of it. This is the true potential of humanity, realized throughout the ages by few, distorted via institutionalization by many, simple as breathing, but ungraspable by effort!
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