Let’s begin by thinking about thinking. You can do this. Especially since I have broken this DougTalk into two parts.
Firewalls, Good and Bad
My most recent car upgrade included more artificial “intelligence” than my previous wheels. For instance, this car has decided, for me, that I am putting my front seat passenger (usually my wife), at great risk if I stop at the mailbox cluster, leave the car running, and make the 90-second dash for trash.
The result of this common American habit is the immediate clanging of an alarm so loud that a railway crossing bell becomes, by comparison, soothing music.
No problem, think I. Back to the dealer for a little software attitude adjustment. “We’re sorry, Sir, but that’s not possible.”
NOT POSSIBLE?! Makes me think of people whom both you and I have encountered. Try to influence their thinking, just a little bit, and loud alarms go off in their head and come out of their mouths.
Everyone who has a brain wave or two thinks. Brains, or minds, are the control centers of our bodies and beings. Programming of the brain begins early and should continue indefinitely. Ideally.
Enter the firewall, the information blocker. We all have the very useful capacity to set up content firewalls. We may, for instance, program our firewalls to block stuff like immoralities in any or all of their various invasive forms. I would endorse that kind of firewall.
Like most everything else in life, capacities and abilities can be misused and abused. When bias-insulating firewalls and filters are welded into our minds, we earn labels. Try these on for size: “stubborn”, “narrow-minded”, “incorrigible”, “closed-minded”, just to name some of the more common ones.
You and I…we’re not like those people. ~dkb~
~To be continued~
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