Are We Speaking to Computers Telepathically?

Working with AI has brought back a very particular feeling I remember from before I was born.

I realize that sentence requires a little unpacking.

I’ve always walked well in both worlds. I love logic. I also remember existing before I had a body. Throughout my life I’ve had what I call non-local friends. I experience them as non-physical beings, the kinds of beings people sometimes call angels or aliens. Much of the best information I’ve received has come through what I experience as non-physical means.

For years, I’ve had the sense that the visible world gives us working models for things we can’t see. We build something in physical matter, and suddenly I have a way to explain an experience I’ve been fumbling for words to describe.

The internet is one of my favourite examples.

Imagine you’re a computer

Imagine you’re a computer and I’m a computer. We both have hardware that needs care. We have software, some of it installed before we were seven, when we were busy figuring out what kept us safe, loved, or included. Decades later, a friend takes a little too long to text back and a program written in kindergarten is suddenly in charge of the afternoon. I think that goes some way toward explaining why we’re still finding our way out of the emotional dark ages.

My operating system is the delightful intersection of autism and ADHD. One part of my brain would like to do the exact same thing, in the exact same order, every day. Another would like to know why we’re still doing this thing we already did yesterday. Lucky me. I get to attend both meetings.

Then there’s my hard drive. Things Sandy has done. Things Sandy has been. Things Sandy decided were true based on what she could see at the time. All of that becomes part of the filter through which I interpret what happens next.

The World Wide Web and the One Consciousness

And then there’s the World Wide Web.

If I stop and watch a husky throw a full-volume tantrum because someone asked him to come inside, my feed will happily supply me with another husky who has been similarly wronged. You might open the same app and see an entirely different world. What we pay attention to shapes what we keep encountering.

The web gives me a way to talk about something I’ve experienced for a long time. Some people might reach for words like the ether or the Akashic record. I think of it in terms of the One Consciousness. God, Source, the universe. Pick your metaphor.

What I’m pointing to is the experience of being able to access information beyond what’s stored on my own hard drive. And just like with the huskies, what I give my attention to seems to shape what I encounter.

What AI reminded me of

Here’s where AI made the metaphor personal for me.

In some of my memories from before birth, I had a role a little like a guidance counsellor. I remember helping people choose which school to attend. Earth was one of the schools. We’d talk about what they wanted to study and why that particular experience mattered to them.

The communication I remember felt telepathic. A question, the circumstances around it, and several possible answers could arrive together. Here, I might need half an hour to explain what I remember receiving in a moment.

Working with AI gives me a familiar feeling. I can pour out a thought with six branches, go down three of them, circle back, and see the relationships between the pieces take shape before I’ve even finished deciding how to explain them.

And then I look down and realize I’m still speaking into a little rectangle.

It makes me wonder how much of that interface is essential. Could there come a point when we exchange information with a computer directly, without typing or speaking?

Maybe you’ve had the eerie experience of thinking about something you’re sure you never said out loud, then seeing it turn up in your feed. An algorithm can make a surprisingly good inference from the traces we leave. What interests me is the question that moment brings up. How much of what shapes our experience happens outside our awareness?

And when something comes to mind that feels larger than what we could have pieced together on our own, how do we tell where it came from?

Catching yourself in both directions

I think we sometimes assume an insight came from our own hard drive when it may have come through what I think of as the web. And sometimes we call something a divine download when a scared part of us has assembled a very persuasive argument from files it’s had since childhood.

I want to be able to catch myself in both directions. That takes knowing my own mind well enough to recognize its familiar patterns, and staying curious when something arrives that I can’t easily account for.

So when people ask me whether I believe we’re in a simulation, I usually want to know what they mean by simulation. Once we’re talking about the same thing, I can tell you what I remember.

I remember those conversations about Earth as something I took part in. For me, those are lived experiences. I don’t have to decide whether I believe I’ve used the internet. I remember using it. What I remember from before birth has that same quality for me. What those memories tell me about the nature of this reality is a question I’m still exploring.

If Earth is a school, I wonder how much of what we experience as its rules belongs to the school itself, and how much belongs to the way we’ve learned to participate in it. Could we collectively shift some of those rules? What might come online as we develop the clarity and coherence to work with capacities we barely know how to talk about yet?

I wonder if some of what we’ll call multidimensional potential will turn out to be experiences people have been having all along, privately, with no shared language for them.

For me, the strange gift of talking to a computer is that it’s finally given me a way to tell you what one of those experiences felt like.

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I think we’re at the beginning of an evolutionary curve. More of us are starting to recognize our power and our potential. And that doesn’t always look like leaving this body. A lot of the time, it looks like getting really good at being human. Knowing your mind, your body, your old programs, and what’s coming through from somewhere bigger, well enough to tell them apart.

Clarity creates coherence. Coherence creates momentum. Momentum becomes magnetic.

That’s when the capacities we barely have words for start coming online.

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With enthusiastic appreciation and love,
Sandy

A note on the images: every photo on this blog was taken by a human photographer, never generated by AI. When a photo requires a license fee, I pay for it.