This can be easily seen as a deeply programmed two way thought
pattern that extends to Good-Bad, Right-Wrong, Indecent-Decent and so
on.
By observing our thoughts objectively, as Gurdjieff and
others have suggested, it is gets easier and easier to discover this
automatic reaction to ideas, situations, and of course judgements of
other people.
It occurred to me how fascinating it is that our
powerful technology – computers and integrated circuits – have been
programmed in precisely this same way – using On-Off and Zero-One to do
more and more complex calculations.
It is almost as though we
have unconsciously followed the pattern of our own minds in creating
these devices in a form of bio-mimicry.
And it is worth noting
that there is a movement beyond this in computing; new quantum computers
are no longer limited to this binary form of calculation but can handle
many more options, presumably including even paradoxes and anomalies in
what we call artificial intelligence.
But it isn’t always easy
to imagine exactly how we can move from this programmed tendency to
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