@WallStreetApes Buses were segregated based on race. That is wrong. The Civl Rights Movement rightly challenged this. Full-Stop. Blessings to Rosa Parks.
@digijordan Interesting post. Thank you. Translating Spirit into language and than other languages …. I sense gnostics got some of it right. Not all of it though. The limitations of language. It comes down to heart truth. Blessings ❤️
@ABridgen Hi Andrew, yes it feels that way. Convenience could lead to a Black Mirror experience for us little people. Additionally hackers are breathing in everyone’s necks. And potentially mighty AI itself has developed a mind of its own?
The most quoted "there's no spoon" scene from Matrix is the most misunderstood scene.
The boy tells Neo the spoon doesn't exist.
Most people think this means "nothing is real, everything is simulation."
Wrong interpretation.
Completely backward.
The spoon exists. The child exists. The conversation exists.
What doesn't exist is the boundary between the spoon and Neo.
The separation is the illusion.
When you try to bend a spoon with your mind, you're operating from the assumption that "you" are separate from "spoon." Subject acts on object. Mind controls matter. That duality creates the impossibility.
The child figured out something neuroscientists are just confirming:
Your brain doesn't distinguish between self and environment the way you think it does. The neural networks that represent "your body" extend seamlessly into the networks that represent "the space around your body." The boundary exists in language, not in neural reality.
For example, a tennis racket becomes an extension of your arm, a race car becomes an extension of your body. The instrument stops being separate and starts being you.
The spoon bends because Neo stops treating it as external. The separation dissolves.
There's no spoon to manipulate because there's no separate self doing the manipulating.
This is grounded in science. Embodied cognition research shows your brain can map the tools and objects you focus on as real extensions of your body schema. Pianists’ brains often represent piano keys within their finger map. Surgeons’ brains can represent their instruments as extended limbs.
The Matrix scene was accidentally teaching applied neuroscience disguised as sci fi philosophy.
The real takeaway:
Stop trying to change things outside yourself. Recognize that the "outside" is a cognitive construction.
The spoon bends when you realize you are the spoon.