Ascension

The dream of techno capital

Mindfulness and technology sharing the same space of consciousness.

Contemporary consciousness practitioners and neuroscientists such as Thomas Metzinger, converge on a point where free will is defined as a myth. That we all suffer from the illusion of the illusion of free will, what the eastern tradition calls the identification with the self. How can something which appears so ever present within our lived experience be an illusion.

These days we are often asked to self verify that we are human and not a robot. The recaptcha system used to stop bots breaking into your internet accounts is that system. This system owned by google is from another perspective a system designed to get you to provide free labour for google. When the captcha verify first appeared you were asked to copy out odd words that made no sense these words were in fact words algorithms could not make out, this was helping google in its attempt to digitise all the written books in existence. Then there were a series of images asking you to highlight house numbers and other street items these were related to googles tagging of the environment of google maps. Currently you are asked to highlight things such as traffic lights and zebra crossings these operations are being used to improve googles Algorithms for the upcoming driverless cars.